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№ 965

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22 September 2016

Hammer Price:
£1,700

Victoria (1837-1901), Pattern Decimal Penny, 1859/7, by L.C. Wyon and J. Wyon, in nickel-bronze, bust left with jewelled diadem, recut ornaments flanking date, rev. Britannia seated right, decimal penny above, one tenth of a shilling below, edge plain, 9.07g/12h (F 685, recté nickel-bronze; BMC 1980; cf. Norweb II, 675). Virtually as struck with reflective fields and a hint of original colour on reverse, extremely rare £800-1,000

Although many of the dies for the series of decimal patterns are said to have been engraved by James Wyon (1804-68), resident engraver at the Mint from 1851 to 1860, it is apparent that several of the bust types used were designed by Leonard Wyon (1826-91), whose career at the Mint began under his father William in 1843