LONDON, High Holborn, John Skidmore, Halfpenny, 1795, 10.08g/6h (DH 480); Skidmore’s mule Halfpence (6), Free Born Briton, rev. French Republican, 12.65g/12h (DH 521), St Paul’s Covent Garden, revs. church ruins (2), 10.62g/6h, 9.34g/6h (both DH 522a), church ruins (3), revs. men at forge, 9.29g/5h (DH 528a), view of a street, 13.13g/6h (DH 531), bust of Earl Howe, 12.51g/11h (DH 533) [7]. First fine, last very fine but scratched, others about extremely fine and better but edge of third filed to deceive £150-200

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

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Provenance: DH 521 bt R. Gladdle April 1993; DH 522a at 10.62g [edge filed] bt W. McKivor January 1997; DH 522a at 9.34g bt M.Z. Gerson December 1979; DH 528a W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 554 [from J.A. Bobbe 1990], bt A. Davisson September 1998; DH 531 and 533 R.S. Brown Jr Collection, Part I, DNW Auction T7, 7 October 2009, lot 310 [531 from P. Flanagan August 1990, 533 from J. Spingarn March 1997].