The North Yorkshire Moors Collection of British Coins & Tokens formed by Marvin Lessen

Mary, Halfgroat, by Edward Emery, harp uncrowned type, 0.81g/12h (Pagan 92). Good fine £50-£70

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The North Yorkshire Moors Collection of British Coins.

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Provenance: Adams Family Collection; Massachusetts Historical Society Collection, with Stack’s January 1983; N. Applebaum Collection, Superior Auction (Beverly Hills), 11 December 1992, lot 1581 [from S. Harvey March 1983].

Almost certainly acquired by Charles Francis Adams (1807-86) from one of the London dealers when he was resident in the city in the 1860s and donated by his son to the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1913 (see Lessen I, lot 217, and II, lot 463, footnotes)