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Middlesex [City of London], Newgate Street, Christ’s Hospital, Penny, 1800, monogram, rev. value, 6.54g/6h (DH 11). Striking crack, otherwise better than extremely fine, attractively patinated £60-80
Hammer Price: £85
Middlesex [City of London], Old Cavendish Street, Richard Summers, Halfpenny, 1797, head of a wild man full facing, rev. large rs cypher surrounded by three lines of legends, edge plain, 16.48g/6h (DH 906). Virtually as struck, attractive light patina, very rare and one of the best known specimens £400-500
Hammer Price: £820
Middlesex [City of London], Piccadilly, London Corresponding Society, Skidmore’s mule Halfpenny, man hanging from gallows, cap of Liberty and obelisk, rev. obelisk and masonic emblems, edge engrailed, 9.31g/6h (DH 291; Harris –). Excess of metal on lower reverse rim, otherwise extremely fine with original colour, extremely rare and the most desirable of all the masonic tokens of the period £1,500-2,000
Hammer Price: £2,900
Middlesex [City of London], Russell Court, Sim, Halfpenny, bust of David Garrick right, rev. masks of Tragedy and Comedy, edge plain, 9.37g/6h (DH 478a). Virtually as struck with considerable original colour and attractive reflective surfaces £60-80
Hammer Price: £55
Middlesex [City of London], St James’s Street, William Stinton, Halfpenny, 1795, grasshopper, rev. legend, edge italian french & portugal fruit warehouse, 8.95g/3h (DH 904). Extremely fine with original colour £50-70
Hammer Price: £95
Middlesex [City of London], Soho, Robert Orchard, Milton’s Penny, 1803, draped bust right, rev. legend, edge plain, 25.00g/12h (DH 38; Stainton 45). Light die flaws in obverse field and a small scratch behind head, otherwise virtually as struck, reverse with considerable original colour, extremely rare; the best example the cataloguer has seen in commerce £800-1,000
Hammer Price: £1,100
Middlesex [City of London], Soho, Robert Orchard, Jacobs’ Halfpenny, 1795, bust left, rev. arms, edge plain, 13.35g/6h (DH 399). On a thick flan, usual die flaw on obverse, some trifling spots, otherwise brilliant and practically as struck, full original colour, most attractive £120-150
£120–£150
Middlesex [City of London], Soho, Robert Orchard, James’s Halfpenny, bust right, rev. City arms, edge plain, 9.59g/5h (DH 400). Virtually as struck with much original colour £120-150
Hammer Price: £170
Middlesex [City of London], Soho, Robert Orchard, James’s Halfpenny, 1797, bust right, rev. family arms, edge plain, 9.52g/6h (DH 402). Obverse with traces of die-clashing, otherwise brilliant and virtually as struck, most attractive reflective surfaces, scarce £150-200
Hammer Price: £200
Middlesex [City of London], Soho, Robert Orchard, Skidmore’s mule Halfpenny, bust left by Jacobs, revs. bust right by James, edge plain, 9.42g/6h (DH 404). Usual die flaw on obverse, otherwise practically as struck with attractive patina and reflective fields, scarce £150-200
Hammer Price: £160
Middlesex [City of London], Soho, Robert Orchard, Jacobs’ Farthing, 1796, bust left in hat, rev. ro cypher, edge plain, 3.80g/8h (DH 1060). Virtually as struck with almost full original colour, attractive £80-100
Middlesex [City of London], Soho, Isaac Swainson, Ponthon’s Halfpenny, bust left, rev. robed female dropping herbs into a brick still, edge plain, 9.31g/6h (DH 907; Storer 3463). FDC, extremely rare £1,000-1,500
Hammer Price: £2,800
Middlesex [City of London], Strand, Philip Astley, Halfpenny, Mercury standing on horse galloping right, rev. man balancing on his head on the point of a sword, edge payable in dublin or london, 9.41g/12h (DH 362b). Extremely fine £40-50
Middlesex [City of London], Strand, William Forster, Halfpenny, 1795, crown encircled with the sheet music to God Save the King, rev. Prince of Wales’ feathers, edge plain, 14.75g/6h (DH 302). Graze by feathers, otherwise extremely fine and attractively patinated £60-80
Hammer Price: £45
Middlesex [City of London], Strand, Gilbert Pidcock, Halfpenny, lion couchant holding shield, reads exibition, rev. eagle standing left, edge plain, 7.95g/6h (DH 414). Extremely fine with original colour and attractive surfaces £60-80
Middlesex [City of London], Strand, Gilbert Pidcock, Halfpenny, 1795, lion couchant holding shield, reads ehxibition, rev. eagle flying left, edge payable in dublin or london, 9.78g/6h (DH 415). Extremely fine with a hint of original colour on obverse, glossy brown patina £60-80
Hammer Price: £100
Middlesex [City of London], Strand, Gilbert Pidcock, Halfpenny, 1795, antelope standing left, rev. ostrich standing left, edge plain, 10.94g/6h (DH 447a). Usual light die flaw on obverse, otherwise virtually as struck with almost full original colour, attractive £100-150
Middlesex [City of London], Strand, Gilbert Pidcock, Halfpenny, 1800, lion standing right, dog on its back, rev. kangaroo standing left, joey in its pouch, edge plain, 11.41g/12h (DH 430). Virtually as struck with attractive brown patina £90-120
Hammer Price: £230
Middlesex [City of London], Strand, Gilbert Pidcock, Farthing, elephant standing left, rev. two-headed cow standing right, edge grained, 6.01g/6h (DH 1065, thick flan). Virtually as struck with a hint of original colour and attractive reflective surfaces £80-100
Hammer Price: £130
Middlesex [City of London], Tottenham Court Road, Jonathan Dennis, Halfpenny, 1795, wheatsheaf, rev. legend in 8 lines, edge payable at i dennis london, 9.32g/6h (DH 297). Virtually as struck with almost full original colour £60-80
Hammer Price: £150
Middlesex [City of London], West Smithfield, Richard Harrison, Denton’s Farthing, 1797, two male busts vis-à-vis, rev. legend, edge plain, 3.98g/12h (DH 1059; Storer 3940). Virtually as struck and attractively patinated £90-120
Middlesex [City of London], West Smithfield, Thomas Prattent, Halfpenny, 1796, anchor in shield, cap of Liberty above, rev. arms of the City of London, edge plain, 9.21g/6h (DH 459). Virtually as struck with attractive glossy surfaces £80-100
Middlesex [City of London], Uncertain locality, Peter Anderson, Jorden’s Halfpenny, 1795, City arms, domine dirige nos above shield, rev. ornate pa cypher, edge payable at the house of peter anderson london, 14.25g/6h (DH 249). Excess cud of metal on obverse rim between 2 and 3 o’clock, otherwise virtually as struck with dark patina, extremely rare; very few specimens known £500-600
£500–£600
Middlesex [Greater Metropolitan area], Hackney, David Rebello, Milton’s Penny, 1796, church, rev. figure of Time seated on a cabinet, holding a tablet inscribed with Rebello’s name, edge plain, 16.64g/12h (DH 24; Stainton 34). An original striking, mint state with a hint of original colour, very rare £900-1,200
Hammer Price: £1,450
Middlesex [Greater Metropolitan area], Hackney, David Rebello, Milton’s Halfpenny, 1795, church, rev. dar cypher, aplustre and rudder, edge plain, 12.24g/12h (DH 309; Stainton 33). Virtually as struck and very rare £150-200
£150–£200
Middlesex [Greater Metropolitan area], Hampton, Skidmore’s Clerkenwell series, Penny, David Garrick’s house, rev. fictitious arms, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 23.92g/6h (DH 154). Practically mint state, full original colour £150-200
Hammer Price: £120
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Denton’s ‘Swan’ Penny, 1797, swan with partly expanded wings swimming left, rev. urn flanked by scythes and sprigs of laurel, arrow, skull and hour-glass below, edge plain, 27.28g/6h (DH 175a). Metal fault on reverse edge at 1 o’clock, otherwise virtually as struck with a hint of original colour and attractive surfaces, very rare £900-1,200
Hammer Price: £1,350
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’ series], Skidmore’s British Penny, 1797, bust of George III right within ornamental border, rev. tg cypher, palm branches below, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 26.53g/12h (DH 191). Extremely fine, obverse with a hint of original colour, extremely rare; believed only 8 specimens known £900-1,200
Hammer Price: £880
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Skidmore’s British Penny, 1797, Britannia seated right, rev. twr cypher, date on tablet below, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 23.94g/6h (DH 6). Reverse edge fault at 5 o’clock, otherwise extremely fine with a hint of original colour, very rare £800-1,000
Hammer Price: £700
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Skidmore’s Churches, Halfpenny, Holborn, St Andrew’s church, rev. legend within and around wreath, edge skidmore holborn london, 12.23g/12h (DH 595). Virtually as struck with considerable original colour, attractive £60-80
Hammer Price: £65
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’ series], Skidmore’s London and Westminster series, Penny, 1797, type 1, Bank of England, rev. arms between palm and oak branches, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 23.83g/7h (DH 81). Virtually as struck with considerable original colour £120-150
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’ series], Skidmore’s London and Westminster series, Penny, 1797, type 4, Westminster Abbey, rev. City arms surrounded with drapery, cap of maintenance divides date, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 24.58g/6h (DH 91). Virtually as struck with attractive reflective patina, rare £300-400
Hammer Price: £320
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Skidmore’s London and Westminster series, Penny, 1797, type 5, Horse and Foot Guards, Whitehall, rev. City arms, mural crown above, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 24.43g/12h (DH 93). Obverse die in flawed state, virtually as struck with considerable original colour, very rare £600-800
Hammer Price: £520
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Skidmore’s ‘End of Pain’ mule Halfpenny, 1797, man hanging, church with finely castellated tower, rev. combustibles with labels issuing from a globe, edge plain, 9.93g/6h (DH 835). Virtually as struck with original colour and reflective surfaces, rare £800-1,000
Hammer Price: £1,300
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Spence’s mule Halfpenny, bust left, rev. men under tree, edge spence x dealer x in x coins x london x, 12.85g/5h (DH 689). Extremely fine with a hint of original colour and reflective fields £100-150
Hammer Price: £110
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Spence’s mule Halfpenny, t spence bookseller, etc, rev. Spaniard standing, edge plain, 12.69g/6h (DH 700b). Virtually as struck with attractive brown patina and reflective surfaces £100-150
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Spence’s mule Halfpenny, from the same obv. die as previous, rev. snail on river-bank, edge plain, 10.31g/7h (DH 714b). Virtually as struck with much original colour and reflective surfaces £100-150
Hammer Price: £140
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Spence’s mule Halfpenny, Bluecoat boy standing right, rev. Westminster scholar standing right, edge plain, 10.28g/6h (DH 724). Trifling surface marks in reverse field, otherwise virtually as struck and bronzed £150-200
Hammer Price: £220
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Spence’s mule Halfpenny, deserted village, rev. Indian standing right, edge spence x dealer x in x coins x london x, 10.69g/6h (DH 746). Terminal state of the obverse die, virtually as struck with brown patina and reflective surfaces £150-200
Hammer Price: £440
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Spence’s mule Halfpenny, bust of Charles Fox right, rev. tree supporting two shields, edge grained, 8.93g/6h (DH 772a). Virtually as struck with original colour and reflective fields £150-200
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