The Joanna Tansley Collection of Patterns, Proofs and Coining Trials

Miscellaneous, Typeface Trial, the obv. of a Florin, undated [1961], in cupro-nickel, bust left as on the currency coin, normal legends in Albertus, trial alb. in two lines below chin, rev. Tower Mint logo, edge grained, 11.16g/12h. Extremely fine and extremely rare (£300-400)

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

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Provenance:
Spink Auction 134, 13 July 1999, lot 465 (part).

This piece, and those in the following three lots, were produced by the Royal Mint in October 1961 for the Royal Mint Advisory Committee sub-committee investigating the most suitable type of lettering for coinage, under Sir Francis Meynell and Mr Milner Gray