Auction Catalogue

3 October 2012

Starting at 12:00 PM

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British Tokens

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 1051 x

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3 October 2012

Hammer Price:
£160

Angus, Dundee, William Croom, Kempson’s Halfpenny, 9.63g/6h (DH 15); Wright’s ‘Infirmary’ Halfpenny, 1796, 11.34g/6h (DH 16); imitation Halfpence, 1796 (2), edge grained, 8.92g/6h (DH 16a), edge plain, 8.97g/6h (DH 16, edge unlisted) [4]. First mediocre and with striking crack, second extremely fine with considerable original colour and brilliant fields, others very fine and better, much as made, the obverse die with increasing flaws, last very rare but almost certainly a restrike £80-100

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

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Provenance: DH 15 bt W. McKivor October 1996; *DH 16 bt J.A. Bobbe July 1994; DH 16a bt S. Cordova March 1994; DH 16 edge unlisted bt W. Anderson February 1996