Auction Catalogue

7 & 8 December 2015

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Coins, Tokens, Historical Medals and Paper Money

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Lot

№ 428

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7 December 2015

Hammer Price:
£600

18th Century Tokens, Co DUBLIN, Dublin, Brent Nevill, Halfpenny, 1803, Hibernia seated right with harp and cornucopia, rev. ship, nevill & co above, dublin below, edge plain, 8.10g/6h (DH –; D – [59 obv., rev. unpublished]; Woodside –). Good fine and of the highest rarity; the first specimen seen by the cataloguer and almost certainly the only known example of this die-pairing £500-1,000

Brent Nevill, merchant, in directories 1783-1801 at 62 and then 52 Abbey street, Sheriff’s peer, Sherriff 1810