Greater Metropolitan area, Hackney, David Rebello, Skidmore’s mule Penny, 1795, dar cypher, rev. oval shield with flags, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 23.69g/6h (DH 21). Light handling mark on obverse, otherwise virtually as struck with considerable original colour, especially on reverse, extremely rare £600-800

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

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Provenance: Glendining Auction, 6 June 1990, lot 452; bt W. Anderson January 1996 [from A. Davisson]