Auction Catalogue

16 March 2005

Starting at 9:30 AM

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Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes, to include the Professor Jeffrey P Mass Collection of English Short Cross Coins, 1180-1247 (Part II) and British Medals from the James Spencer Collection (Part III)

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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Lot

№ 1342

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16 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£140

18th Century, Middlesex, Kempson’s London Buildings, Pennies (3), type 2, all in brass, Ordnance Office, 25.53g/6h (DH 64), St Thomas’s Hospital, 22.52g/6h (DH 66), Trinity Almshouse, 23.49g/6h (DH 67) [3]. DH 64 from the flawed obverse die; last about very fine, others good very fine but somewhat dulled, all very rare (£100-150)

Provenance:
*DH 64 R.B. Bain Collection, Sotheby Auction, 30-1 May 1932, lot 23 (part), F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Baldwin July 1932], Baldwin Auction 24, 9-10 October 2000, lot 1093 (part)
DH 66 Yeates Collection, F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Baldwin March 1923], Baldwin Auction 24, 9-10 October 2000, lot 1094 (part)
DH 67 J. Dudman Collection, F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Baldwin April 1914], Baldwin Auction 24, 9-10 October 2000, lot 1094 (part)