The Joanna Tansley Collection of Patterns, Proofs and Coining Trials

British West Africa, George VI, Trial Shilling, 1952, in chromised mild steel, crowned bust left, trial in front, rev. palm tree divides date, trial horizontally at right, edge plain, 23mm, 4.84g/12h (Vice 326; KM. TS3; cf. R.J. Ford Sale, 112). Usual file marks on edge and two scrape marks on portrait, otherwise extremely fine, flan ‘dished’ (£40-60)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Joanna Tansley Collection of Patterns, Proofs and Coining Trials.

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In a strict currency sense the coins in this and the next two lots have no connection with British West Africa, inasmuch as they were made at the Royal Mint in the late 1960s as part of a general experiment to find cheaper metals suitable for coinage (Vice, pp.178-9)