The Late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection

Buckinghamshire, Slough, William Till and John Peckham, Proof mule Halfpenny, 1794, in silver, arms of the Till family, rev. arms of the Peckham family, edge plain, 11.62g/12h (DH 25; Preston-Morley 1049, this piece). Adhesive remains on obverse and a minor rim nick at 12 o’clock, otherwise very fine, reverse better and toned, with the usual flaw on the rim, of the highest rarity; only one other specimen known
£500-700

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 1049 [from Baldwin August 1973].

Exhibition: British Numismatic Society, 22 April 1980.

Contrary to the note in Davisson’s 1990 revision of D & H, this coin and the other specimen (M. Rasmussen FPL 8, Summer 2005, no. 6, now in a private collection) demonstrates that DH 25 does exist in silver