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The Late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection

Robinson S Brown, Jr

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№ 651 x

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5 October 2011

Hammer Price:
£130

Shropshire, Willey and Snedshill, John Wilkinson, Three Shillings and Sixpence, 1788, in silver, bust right, rev. barge sailing left, fine silver around, edge willey snedshill bersham bradley, 15.58g/12h (DH Warwickshire 337). Cleaned in the past, with associated surface marks and a reverse edge knock at 3 o’clock, otherwise good fine, rare £150-200

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Provenance: With Seaby; bt J.A. Bobbe April 1993.

100 struck; the issue, probably struck by Thomas Williams and promulgated on Monday, 20 October 1788, was quickly withdrawn as currency and later distributed privately as medals (Dykes, forthcoming)