Devon, Puddington, William Waller, Halfpenny, 1797, bust right, from the unfinished die with thick hair and eye not yet added, rev. ship sailing right, edge plain, 8.88g/6h (DH Bedfordshire 4, this piece illustrated; Dickinson, TCSB September 2008, no.1, this piece). Tiny graze behind head, otherwise extremely fine and patinated, of the highest rarity and the finest known example; believed only one other extant £2,000-3,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection.

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Provenance: F.S. Cokayne Collection; N.T. Bagshawe Collection, Glendining Auction, 3 November 2000, lot 773, recté DH 4 and illus. as 774 in error [from Baldwin April 1951]; bt R. Gladdle September 2001