The Joanna Tansley Collection of Patterns, Proofs and Coining Trials

Victoria (1837-1901), Pattern 10 Cents, 1857, unsigned [obv. by L.C. Wyon, rev. by J. Wyon], in nickel-bronze, bust left with jewelled diadem, rev. Britannia seated right, edge plain, on a thick flan, 17.11g/12h (BMC 1970; F 677). Feint obverse die crack running from edge to centre and minor metal flaws on reverse, otherwise extremely fine and of the highest rarity, believed the only specimen available to commerce (£800-1,000)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Joanna Tansley Collection of Patterns, Proofs and Coining Trials.

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Provenance:
M.J. Freeman Collection, Christie’s Auction, 23 October 1984, lot 190
bt P.C.W. Deane.

The only other specimen is in the British Museum