Warwickshire, Coventry, Thomas Sharp, Trial Halfpenny, 1797, in white metal, seated female, cityscape behind, rev. Georgian house with man leaning from upper window, other windows not filled in, edge plain, 10.25g/12h (DH 311). Small area of tin pest in obverse field, otherwise about extremely fine, extremely rare £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection.

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Provenance: Spink Auction 43, 18 April 1985, lot 501; M.Z. Gerson Collection; W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 1022 [from M.Z.G. September 1985].

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