Auction Catalogue

18 September 2013

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British Coins featuring the late Ron Hansen Collection

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 1248

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18 September 2013

Hammer Price:
£3,000

Pattern Halfpenny pledge, c. 1576, in silver, crowned royal monogram, the · pledge · of, rev. · a · halfpenny ·, crowned double rose, edge plain, 1.55g/6h (BMC 2; N 2053). Good very fine and toned, extremely rare £2,000-2,500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Patterns of Elizabeth I from the Collection of Walter Wilkinson.

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Provenance: E. Rogers Collection; with Baldwin 1950; ‘Gregory’ Collection, Part III, Baldwin Auction 50, 24 April 2007, lot 309.

C.W. Peck concluded that, from the weights of the surviving specimens, this coin and, more particularly, the next, were struck in accordance with the proposal submitted
c. 1576 for coining halfpenny and farthing pledges (BMC pp.9-11)