Paul Skidmore series, British Penny, 1797, Britannia seated right, rev. twr cypher, date on tablet below, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 23.94g/6h (DH 6). Reverse edge fault at 5 o’clock, otherwise extremely fine with a hint of original colour, very rare £500-600

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

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Provenance: T. Bliss Collection; R. Dalton Collection; W. Waite-Sanderson Collection, Glendining Auction, 16-17 November 1944, lot 67 (part); F.S. Cokayne Collection; M.Z. Gerson Collection [from Baldwin]; W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty, Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 262; W. Anderson Collection, Davissons Mailbid Sale 13, 25 April 2000 (572).

The pedigree of this piece has been confused with that formerly in the T.A. Jan collection, lot 116 (the Bell plate coin) which does not have the edge fault. Gerson acquired that coin at the Jan sale in 1983 but subsequently traded it for this one