Auction Catalogue

15 December 2005

Starting at 9:30 AM

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Tickets and Passes, Important British Trade Tokens, Coin Weights

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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Lot

№ 2081

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15 December 2005

Hammer Price:
£700

Tamworth, John Harding, Penny, 1799, from the same dies as previous, edge plain, 35.07g/6h (DH 9a). From the reverse die after the flaws had been polished off, extremely fine and patinated, extremely rare (£500-700)

Provenance:
D.L. Spence Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 67A, 29 September 2005, lot 1685 [from Baldwin October 1973]

Stated to be only four specimens known with this edge