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

№ 1434

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16 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£160

18th Century, Middlesex, Spence’s mule Halfpence (3), legend, revs. Minerva, 12.83g/5h (DH 699); Highlander (2), spence edge, 11.92g/6h (DH 700), edge plain, 12.85g/6h (DH 700b) [3]. DH 699 practically as struck with full original colour, DH 700 about extremely fine but obverse struck from a partly filled die, DH 700b very fine (£90-120)

Provenance:
*DH 699 T.A. Jan Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 26, 9 February 1983, lot 322 (part), with M.Z. Gerson, W.J. Noble Collection, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 58 B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 589 (part) [from R. Gladdle 1984], bt J. Bobbe
DH 700b J. Spingarn Collection