Auction Catalogue

28 September 2005

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Important British and World Coins

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

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Lot

№ 472

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28 September 2005

Hammer Price:
£130

Miscellaneous, Typeface Trials (2), both 1971, in gilt-plated steel, viz. letters of the alphabet continuous in two circles, with date, around central cross, rev. test repeated around figure 2 within inner circle, edge plain, 22mm, 1.44g/12h; similar, rev. cruciform group of nine raised dots, edge plain, 22mm, 1.36g [2]. Virtually as struck, extremely rare; believed the only examples extant outside the Royal Mint (£60-80)