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Worcestershire, County series, Skidmore’s Penny, dove on lyre between olive branches, peace love and harmony, rev. ms cypher, penny payable in worcestershire, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 23.63g/1h (DH 1). Some spotting on obverse, otherwise extremely fine with original colour, rare £120-£150
Hammer Price: £340
Yorkshire, Bedale, James Metcalf, Skidmore’s Halfpenny, 1792, view of a street, rev. jom cypher, edge grained, 9.40g/6h (DH 9). Extremely fine, original colour, very rare £80-£100
Hammer Price: £150
Yorkshire, Beverley, J. Green, Halfpenny, 1797, pawnbroker’s balls, rev. money lent on plate wearing apparel &c, etc, edge plain, 9.78g/12h (DH 13). No traces of overstriking, spot on b of pawnbroker, otherwise extremely fine with a hint of original colour £150-£200
Hammer Price: £1,000
Yorkshire, Bowes, Skidmore’s Globe series, Penny, remains of Bowes Castle, rev. globe, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 23.67g/12h (DH Middlesex 143). About extremely fine, dark brown patina £100-£150
Hammer Price: £180
Yorkshire, Hull, Jonathan Garton & Co, Halfpenny, 1791, 12.44g/6h (DH 17), Hancock’s mule Halfpenny, rev. ship, 10.79g/6h (DH 22); Leeds, Henry Brownbill, Halfpenny, 1793, 12.21g/6h (DH 41, bronzed); Sheffield, issuer uncertain, Halfpenny, 1793, 10.71g/12h (DH 56b); York, issuer uncertain, Halfpence, 1795 (2), 10.87g/6h, 10.78g/6h (both DH 63) [6]. DH 41 virtually as struck, DH 63 at 10.87g extremely fine, others very fine £80-£100
Hammer Price: £85
Yorkshire, Leeds, Samuel Birchall, Halfpenny, 1795, arms, rev. fleece, edge payable in anglesey london or liverpool, 13.78g/6h (DH 28a). Extremely fine and very rare £120-£150
Hammer Price: £200
Yorkshire, Malton, Westwood’s Penny, 1798, bust of Edmund Burke right, rev. Fame blowing trumpet, british orator, etc, edge plain, 23.61g/6h (DH 3). Trifling spots, otherwise virtually as struck and bronzed, rare £200-£260
Hammer Price: £460
Yorkshire, Rievaulx, Skidmore’s Clerkenwell series, Penny, ruins of Rievaulx Abbey, rev. fictitious arms, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 24.59g/6h (DH Middlesex 159). Usual reverse die flaw, virtually as struck, obverse with almost full original colour £150-£200
Hammer Price: £360
Yorkshire, Ripon, Kempson’s Penny, view of the ruins of Fountains Abbey, rev. jk cypher within wreath of flowers, edge plain, 18.59g/6h (DH 2). Extremely fine, rare £150-£200
Hammer Price: £650
Yorkshire, Yarm, Skidmore’s Globe series, Penny, remains of Yarm Castle, rev. globe, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 18.54g/11h (DH Middlesex 145). Characteristic obverse die flaw, a few trifling spots on obverse, otherwise extremely fine with considerable original colour and the detail much better struck up than normal, very rare £150-£200
Yorkshire, York, James Carlill, Halfpenny, 1796, bust of Constantine the Great left, rev. arms, edge payable at york, 12.13g/12h (DH 69). Virtually as struck, bronzed £80-£100
Yorkshire, York, James Carlill, Halfpenny, 1796, female seated left, supporting arms of York, eboracum in exergue, rev. symbols of Liberty, Justice and Peace, edge plain, 11.95g/12h (DH 70). Virtually as struck, original colour £90-£120
Yorkshire, York, B. Hobson, brass check, royal arms and supporters, rev. shield, edge plain, 27.5mm, 4.87g/7h (DH 68). Virtually as struck, retaining considerable original brilliance £100-£150
Hammer Price: £220
Yorkshire, York, Lutwyche’s mule Halfpenny, Clifford’s Tower, rev. Britannia, edge fear god and honour the king, 12.05g/6h (DH 66). Extremely fine, considerable original colour £90-£120
Hammer Price: £240
Yorkshire, County series, Benjamin Smith & Co, Skidmore’s Halfpenny, 1798, bust of George III right, rev. bs & co cypher, benn. smith & co. iron-refiners yorkshire around, edge coventry token, 13.39g/6h (DH 8). Usual die flaws on obverse, a small spot either side, otherwise virtually as struck and patinated, rare £120-£150
Hammer Price: £170
Anglesey, Amlwch, Parys Mine Co, Pennies (2), 1787, 29.04g/12h (DH 30), 1788, 28.97g/12h (DH 231), Halfpence, 1788 (2), 14.26g/12h (DH 273), 14.20g/12h (DH 292); uncertain manufacturer, Farthing, 1793, for general circulation, 3.42g/12h (DH 457) [5]. DH 292 virtually as struck with full original colour, DH 231 extremely fine with original colour, others in varied state £140-£180
Hammer Price: £260
Anglesey, Amlwch, Skidmore’s mule Farthing, druid’s head, rev. man hanging, edge plain, 3.72g/6h (DH 459). Extremely fine, considerable original colour £150-£200
Hammer Price: £320
Carmarthenshire, Carmarthen, John Morgan, uniface Pattern for the obv. of a Halfpenny, 1792, by J.G. Hancock, in copper, view of interior of ironworks, iohn morgans iron works and date around, caermarthen below, edge payable at london bristol and caermarthen, 14.68g (DH 1; Dykes, CCEB p.168, 150b, this piece). Usual flaw through iron, extremely fine and patinated, very rare £500-£700
Hammer Price: £750
Carmarthenshire, Carmarthen, John Morgan, Halfpenny, 12.85g/6h (DH 7); GLAMORGANSHIRE, Swansea, John Voss, Halfpenny, 1796, 8.90g/6h (DH 4); PEMBROKESHIRE, St David’s, Lutwyche’s Farthing, 1793, 3.42g/12h (DH 1); NORTH WALES, Lutwyche’s Farthing, 1793, 3.31g/12h (DH 18); SOUTH WALES, Lutwyche’s Farthings, 1793 (2), 4.34g/6h (DH 26a), 3.88g/12h (DH 27a) [6]. Second extremely fine but lacquered, third and fourth fine, others very fine £50-£70
Hammer Price: £80
Carnarvonshire, Bangor, Seth Roberts, Skidmore’s Halfpenny, 1797, crowned harp dividing rd, v below, all within ornamented circle, rev. sth r cypher, 4 below, all in wreath, edge grained, 9.63g/12h (DH 1). Spot above 4, otherwise extremely fine with considerable original colour, very rare £700-£900
Glamorganshire, ‘Glamorgan’ [probably Merthyr Tydfil], William Taitt, Richard Crawshay and Samuel Homfray, Jorden’s specimen Halfpenny, 1795 [but struck later], bust of Jestyn ap Gwrgan left, rev. Britannia seated left on globe, ship at left, pedestal at right, edge plain, 13.65g/5h (DH 1). Light traces of handling, otherwise extremely fine with a little original colour, rare £150-£200
Monmouthshire, Monmouth, James Powell, Halfpenny, 1795, cask, rev. legend in four lines, bunch of grapes above, vine sprig below, edge payable at monmouth and abergavenny, 10.45g/6h (DH 3). Good very fine but has been lacquered £20-£30
Hammer Price: £25
Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen, Denton’s Halfpenny, 1797, ancient fortress, rev. jb cypher, edge plain, 6.25g/6h (DH 1). Struck over an imitation Ballymurtagh Halfpenny of Camac, Kyan & Camac; about extremely fine with dark brown patina, rare £300-£400
Hammer Price: £600
Angus, Dundee, William Croom, Boulton’s Proof Halfpenny, shield of arms, no period after dundee, rev. legend in six lines, edge plain, 10.78g/6h (DH 13). Virtually as struck, bronzed £80-£100
Hammer Price: £50
Angus, Dundee, Thomas Webster Jr, Wright’s Penny, 1797, warehouses above arms, rev. frontal elevation of the Town House, edge payable on demand by thos webster junr, 18.74g/6h (DH 5). Extremely fine with much original colour £90-£120
Hammer Price: £160
Angus, Dundee, James Wright Jr, Kempson’s Penny, 1798, bust of Admiral Lord Duncan almost full-facing, rev. Eve offering apple to Adam in the Garden of Eden, 23,000 inhabitants in dundee…be fruitful and multiply, edge plain, 19.23g/6h (DH 6). Trifling edge nicks, otherwise extremely fine and bronzed, very rare £240-£300
Hammer Price: £380
Angus, Dundee, Wright’s ‘Infirmary’ Halfpenny, 1796, 11.47g/6h (DH 16); J.M. & Co, Farthing, 2.53g/12h (DH 39 bis); Alexander Molison, Wright’s Halfpenny, 1795, 10.07g/6h (DH 10); John Pilmer, Wright’s Halfpenny, 1797, 12.14g/6h (DH 17); Alexander Swap & Co, Wright’s Halfpenny, 1797, 11.14g/6h (DH 21); Wright’s Halfpenny, 1797, 10.54g/7h (DH 20); James Wright Jr, Farthing, 1796, 4.73g/7h (DH 40) [7]. DH 10, 16, 20 and 21 extremely fine, last with much original colour, others...
Angus, Forfar, John Steele, Halfpenny, 1797, 10.81g/6h (DH 24); Montrose, Andrew Nicol, Halfpenny, 1799, 10.59g/6h (DH 33) [2]. First virtually as struck with glossy brown patina, second extremely fine £80-£100
Hammer Price: £300
Argyllshire, Inverary, Skidmore’s Penny, 1797, view of ancient fortress, rev. tg cypher, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 26.57g/12h (DH 2). Extremely fine with a hint of original colour £100-£150
Ayrshire, Ayr, William Fullarton, Milton’s Halfpenny, 1797, bust of William Wallace left, rev. Scotia seated left, edge plain, struck in collar, 13.58g/12h (Dykes, BNJ 2002, p.150, fig. 1; DH 3). Virtually as struck, bronzed £120-£150
Ayrshire, Ayr, William Fullarton, Trial for a Shilling [1798], from dies by J. Milton, in copper, bust of William Wallace right, rev. female seated in mourning, struck in collar, edge plain, 8.75g/12h (Dykes, BNJ 2002, p.151, fig. 2; DH 7). Extensive reverse die flaw, extremely fine, rare £120-£150
Ayrshire, Ayr, William Fullarton, Pattern Halfpenny, 1799, by J. Milton, in copper, bust of Prince of Wales left, no cud under bust, rev. cruciform shields displayed correctly, unbroken label of difference on impaled Scottish arms, edge plain, 11.84g/12h (Dykes, BNJ 2002, p.155, fig. 6; DH 5). FDC and bronzed, an original striking £200-£260
Fifeshire, Anstruther, Robert Taylor, Farthing, legend, rev. sailing sloop, edge plain, 2.26g/6h (DH 4). Extremely fine with attractive light brown patina, rare £80-£100
Fifeshire, Burntisland, Burntisland Vitriol Co, Halfpenny, 1797, cypher above cask, rev. legend within radiated garter, edge grained, 10.34g/6h (DH 2). Virtually as struck with most attractive reflective patina £100-£150
Fifeshire, Kirkcaldy, Robert Boog, Kempson’s Penny, 1797, bust of Adam Smith right, rev. agricultural implements by quay-side, edge plain, 29.66g/6h (DH 1). Virtually as struck and bronzed, attractive, rare £400-£600
Hammer Price: £3,400
Inverness-shire, Inverness, Mackintosh, Inglis & Wilson, Proof Halfpenny, 1794, rose and thistle united, rev. cornucopia, edge payable at mackintosh inglis & wilson’s, 11.25g/6h (DH 2a). FDC, blue-red tone £80-£100
Hammer Price: £120
Inverness-shire, Inverness, Skidmore’s Clerkenwell series, Penny, ruins of the old Fort George, rev. fictitious arms, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 24.09g/1h (DH Middlesex 156). Virtually as struck with full original colour, but has been lightly lacquered £150-£200
Kinross-shire, Loch Leven, James Wright Jr, Kempson’s Penny, 1797, castle remains, trees in front and figure at side, rev. girl with skirt lifted above her knees, treading washing in a tub, flanked by thistle sprays, edge plain, 29.14g/6h (DH 1). Extremely fine but surfaces dulled, rare £200-£260
Hammer Price: £280
Kirkcudbrightshire, Gatehouse of Fleet, Thomas Scott & Co, Halfpenny, 1793, griffin, rev. warehouse, edge plain, 9.63g/6h (DH 1). About extremely fine £30-£40
Lanarkshire, Glasgow, Gilbert Shearer & Co, Boulton’s Halfpenny, 1791, City arms, rev. river-god reclining on urn, edge payable at the house of gilbert shearer & co, 12.82g/6h (DH 2, bronzed). Extremely fine £40-£60
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