Special Collections

Sold on 3 February 1999

1 part

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The Magnay Collection of Fractional Farthings and Victorian Pattern Pennies

David Magnay

Lot

№ 259

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3 February 1999

Hammer Price:
£280

Victoria (1837-1901), Proof Quarter-Farthing, 1868, bronze, edge plain, struck en médaille, 1.15gm (BMC 1616; SC 40; S 3953; Prid. Ceylon 101; cf. R.J. Ford 129). Spot by D of F:D:, otherwise brilliant and practically as struck, rare (£150-200)

Ex Sotheby 20 Feb. 1974 (374)