Lothian (Midlothian), Edinburgh, Thomas and Alexander Hutchison, imitation Halfpence (16), 1791 (7), current every where edge, 10.60g/12h (DH 40, edge unlisted), edinburgh edges (3), 10.41g/6h (DH 38), 9.51g/6h (DH 39), 11.25g/6h (DH 40), hull edge, 10.25g/12h (DH 40a), london edge, 10.57g/12h (DH 40b), edge plain, 9.30g/7h (DH 39a), 1792 (2), clacke edge, 13.04g/6h (DH 48), edge grained, 9.48g/6h (DH 48a), 1796, unaltered date, clacke edge, 9.96g/6h (DH 49); 1796, date altered to 1792 (6), anglesey edge, 9.46g/6h (DH 47c), clacke edge, 10.79g/5h (DH 47d), hutchison edge, 9.74g/7h (DH 47), payable in lancaster london or bristol edge, 9.44g/6h (DH 47e or 47g), edge grained, 9.74g/6h (DH 47a), edge plain, 7.09g/6h (DH 47b); Lutwyche’s mule Halfpence (3), revs. ship (2), london edge, 9.65g/6h (DH 50), edge engrailed, 9.94g/6h (DH 50a), Hibernia, london edge, 9.76g/5h (DH 51); mule Farthings, 1792 (2), revs. youngest son, etc, 3.71g/12h (DH 67), hopeful, etc, 3.87g/12h (DH 68) [21]. DH 39, 47a, 48 and 49 extremely fine, last very rare, DH 39a, 40 with unlisted edge, 47, 47b, 47c, 47d and 47e in varied state, some rare, others generally very fine but DH 68 lacquered £200-250

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

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Provenance: DH 38 and 40a bt J.A. Bobbe June 1996; DH 39 and 40 bt P. Flanagan June 1985; DH 39a bt T. Madigan February 1993; DH 40b bt J.A. Bobbe April 1993; DH 40 unlisted edge bt S. Cordova August 1988; DH 47 bt S. Cordova October 1990; DH 47a with R. Zander June 1963, J.A. Bobbe Collection [from J.D. King January 1981], bt J.A.B. March 1987; DH 47b bt A. Davisson May 1992; DH 47c and 48 T.A. Jan Collection, Part II, Spink Auction 35, 11 April 1984, lot 207 (part), W.J. Noble Collection, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 1298 (part); DH 47d bt A. Boulanger October 1999; DH 47e or g bt J. Spingarn April 1997; DH 48a bt P. Flanagan March 1981; *DH 49 bt J. Spingarn August 1997; DH 50 bt P. Flanagan October 1980; DH 50a bt A. Davisson November 1995; DH 51 bt R. Gladdle March 1994; DH 67 M.Z. Gerson Collection, W.J. Noble Collection, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 1309; DH 68 bt P. Flanagan September 1982.

The obverse die of DH 49 was soon altered from the fictitious date 1796 to a more contemporaneously plausible 1792 (DH 47); the reverse die is common to both DH 49 and 47