Central London, Uncertain locality, W. Sheward, Halfpence, 1792 (4), edge coarse upright graining, 12.62g/6h (DH 928), fine upright graining, 12.62g/6h (DH 928a), edge obliquely grained, 11.83g/6h (DH 928b), edge plain, 11.75g/6h (DH 928d); Uncertain issuers, Mail Coach series, Halfpence (4), with initials jf, 8.85g/12h (DH 363), with initials afh, 8.20g/12h (DH 366), 1797 (2), 8.64g/12h (DH 364), 7.39g/12h (DH 365); I.M. & Co, Halfpence, 1795 (2), edge grained, 8.54g/9h (DH 911), edge plain, 8.26g/6h (DH 911b); Kempson’s ‘London Essex and Norfolk’ Halfpence (2), 10.25g/12h (DH 923), 10.28g/12h (DH 924); Lutwyche’s Westminster Halfpenny, 1792, edgbaston edge, 12.14g/6h (DH 929); ‘Honor and Use of Trade’ Halfpence (4), revs. ship (2), edge plain, 7.01g/6h (DH 925), dublin edge, 8.53g/2h (DH 925a), leopard’s head crest (2), reads fo, 7.05g/6h (DH 926), reads of, 6.84g/5h (DH 927); ‘London and Middlesex’ Farthing, 1793, 3.94g/6h (DH 1124) [18]. DH 365, 925, 925a, 926 and 927 fine, DH 928d poor, others generally very fine, a few better £90-120

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

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Provenance: DH 363 bt J.A. Bobbe March 1997; DH 364 and 923 bt M.Z. Gerson April 1978; DH 365 and 926 bt J. Spingarn August 1997; DH 366 and 925a bt M.Z. Gerson November 1981; DH 911 bt J.A. Bobbe May 1997; DH 911b bt J.A. Bobbe April 1993; DH 924 bt P. Flanagan November 1995; DH 925 bt P. Flanagan June 1985; DH 928 bt R. Gladdle May 1996; DH 927 and 928a bt M.Z. Gerson September 1978; DH 928b M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 53, 19 June 1986, lot 282 (part), bt R. Gladdle August 1986; DH 928d bt A. Davisson July 1996; DH 929 bt R. Gladdle April 1988; DH 1124 bt F. Seymour September 1994 [from R. Gladdle]