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1 & 2 December 2020

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Lot

№ 1004

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2 December 2020

Hammer Price:
£240

Buckinghamshire, Marlow, Peter Rivers, Halfpenny, 1667, 2.35g/6h (BM 116, and BNJ 1973, pl. iv, 116, this piece; N –; BW. 88). Good very fine and well struck, attractive light patina, extremely rare; only three other specimens known £150-£200

Provenance: Glendining Auction, 11-12 July 1929, lot 361 (part); F.E. Baker Collection [from Spink September 1929]; P.J. Preston-Morley Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 52, 28-9 November 2001, lot 965 [from F.E.B. October 1977]