Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

Victoria (1837-1901), Pattern Farthing, 1860 [struck c. 1887], unsigned [probably by L.C. Lauer for ‘A. Weyl’], in tin, young head left, rev. cruciform shields with roses, thistle and shamrock in angles, edge plain, 2.67g/12h (Pearce, BNJ 2011, pp.196-7; Cooke 170; F 901; BMC 2170). Obverse slightly cloudy and with trifling metal flaws, otherwise virtually as struck, of the highest rarity £600-800

Provenance: An Unusual and Important Group of “Weyl” Patterns, Glendining Auction, 15 December 1993, lot 269, where Anthony Dowle postulated that it could be the Murdoch specimen