Free State (1921-1937), Pattern Shilling, 1927, by P. Morbiducci, in cupro-nickel, similar, edge plain, 4.77g/12h (Brady, SNC June 1976, p.238, no.21, this coin; S –; DF –; KM. –). Minor hairlines, some light spotting under eireann and has been lightly lacquered, otherwise brilliant and practically as struck, of the highest rarity, only three specimens known (£3,000-4,000)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Norwich Collection.

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Provenance:
King Farouk Collection, Sotheby Auction (Cairo), 24 February-6 March 1954, lot 2354 (part)
Jess Peters Auction (Decatur), August 1971, lot 1128
Jess Peters Mailbid Sale 57, May 1972, lot 477.

See footnotes to the previous two lots. Of the other cupro-nickel shillings, one was in a mixed metal set reputed to have been owned at one time by Major A.W. Foster and was certainly in the possession of Baldwin’s in the 1970s, and a second example was in a different mixed metal set of nine coins in a green leather case offered for sale by Patrick Finn on behalf of Spink in December 1981 for £40,000, reputed to be ex Morbiducci archive.

Sold with PNG certificate of title signed by Jess Peters, 26 May 1972