The Late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection

Buckinghamshire, Aylesbury, Skidmore’s mule Halfpenny, 1797, from the same obv. die as previous, rev. shepherd reclining under a tree, edge grained, 9.31g/3h (DH 10; Preston-Morley 1027). Compressed flan crack from 11 o’clock to centre and some minor rim nicks, otherwise about very fine with brown patina, extremely rare; only three other specimens known to the cataloguer £150-200

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

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Provenance: T.A. Jan Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 26, 9 February 1983, lot 10; M.Z. Gerson Collection; W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 15 [from M.Z.G. September 1985]