The Late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection

Buckinghamshire, Aylesbury, Skidmore’s mule Halfpenny, 1797, from the same obv. die as previous, rev. sailor, edge grained, 9.33g/12h (DH 11; Preston-Morley –). Extremely fine with considerable original colour, extremely rare £600-800

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

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Provenance: From a 19th century collection; Spink Auction 92, 9 June 1992, lot 5; W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 16; bt A. Davisson September 1998.

The Davisson ticket and envelope with this coin allude to it once being in the Hamer and Waite-Sanderson collections, which is unproven and perhaps a confusion with the provenance to lot 14