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Lot

№ 1698

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26 September 2011

Hammer Price:
£440

George III (1760-1820), Pre-1816 issues, Pattern Halfpenny, 1799 (late Soho), by C.H. Küchler, in gilt-copper, laureate bust right, rev. Britannia seated left on rock, edge centre-grained, 13.09g/6h (BMC 1243 [KH 22]; Selig 1390). Light hairlines and a spot below t of britannia, otherwise brilliant and practically as struck £350-400

Provenance: CNG Triton VII Auction (New York), 13-14 January 2004, lot 1293