The Late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection

Buckinghamshire, Aylesbury, Francis Wheeler, Skidmore’s mule Halfpenny, 1797, Justice seated right, holding sword and scales, rev. FW cypher in script capitals, surmounted by the crest of a swan and encircled by wreath of oak and palm, edge engrailed, 9.08g/6h (DH 5; Preston-Morley 1020, this piece). Obverse a little off-centre as usual, otherwise brilliant and practically as struck with much original colour, extremely rare; only six specimens known to the cataloguer, two of which are in institutions £600-800

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

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Provenance: P.J. Preston-Morley Collection, DNW Auction 52, 28-9 November 2001, lot 1020 [from Baldwin April 1983]