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

Lot

№ 1530

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16 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£210

Dublin, ‘H’, Prattent’s Halfpenny, 1795, 9.51g/6h (DH 311); Irish Mine Co, Halfpenny, 1792, 9.25g/6h (DH 42); W. Parker, Halfpenny, 1795, 9.65g/6h (DH 352b), and a mule Halfpenny, 9.62g/6h (DH 354a); Prattent’s Halfpenny, 1795, 8.88g/9h (DH 15); together with other Irish tokens (13, all different) [18]. Those described very fine and better, others mostly fine (£90-120)

Provenance:
DH 15 ‘Dublinia’ Collection, Whyte’s Auction (Dublin), 21 February 1997, lot 201 (part)
DH 352b F.W. Lincoln Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 February 1936, lot 396 (part) [from Baldwin]
DH 354a M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part II, Spink Auction 58, 30 April 1987, lot 396 (part) [acquired August 1981]