Special Collections

Sold between 14 & 17 March 2004

5 parts

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The Collection of Short Cross Coins formed by the late Professor Jeffrey P. Mass

Professor Jeffrey P Mass

Lot

№ 1261

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15 March 2007

Hammer Price:
£85

Class III, Winchester, Gocelm, gocelm · on · win, five pearls to crown, 1.35g/12h (SCBI 838). Legends weak in places, otherwise very fine (£90-120)

Provenance:
Bt Spink 1993.

SCBI Mass states ‘some wiry, poorly engraved letters in mint signature’. Scrutiny suggests the possibility that the rev. die was cut over an incompleted and poorly engraved obv. die