Important British and World Coins

Elizabeth II (1952-, Two Pence, 1986, in cupro-nickel, security edge, 5.98g/12h (cf. S 4376). Streaky tone, otherwise practically as struck, of the highest rarity with such an edge (£150-200)

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:
Glendining Auction, 11 March 1992, lot 484, where described as 1985 in error.

In the 1992 sale catalogue this coin was also said to be ‘struck…on the flan of a Hong Kong Half-Dollar’, yet no such coin of this size was then being made; a cupro-nickel Hong Kong dollar of the same dimensions was first issued in 1994