The Late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection

Hampshire, Portsmouth, Thomas Sharp, Halfpence, 1797 (5), reads PERSUED, PORTSMOUTH edge, 12.17g/12h (DH 61); reads PURSUED (4), officer’s coat curved, PORTSMOUTH edge, 10.51g/6h (DH 64), officer’s coat straight, PORTSMOUTH edge, 10.36g/7h (DH 65), plain edge, 11.14g/6h (DH 65a; BHM 434), HORTON edge, 10.43g/6h (DH 65b); issuer uncertain, Halfpenny, 1797, VALENTINE edge, 9.58g/6h (DH 67) [6]. DH 65b and 67 fine, former very rare, latter cracked and lacquered, others about extremely fine and better, two with original colour £120-150

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

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Provenance: DH 61 and 65a bt F. Seymour September 1994; DH 64 bt J.A. Bobbe February 1997; *DH 65 bt J.A. Bobbe September 1996; DH 65b W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 166 (part) [acquired 1997]; DH 67 bt M.Z. Gerson July 1978