Buckinghamshire, Aylesbury, Francis Wheeler, Skidmore’s mule Halfpenny, 1797, Justice seated right, holding sword and scales, rev. FW cypher in script capitals, surmounted by the crest of a swan and encircled by wreath of oak and palm, edge engrailed, 9.08g/6h (DH 5; Preston-Morley 1020, this piece). Obverse a little off-centre as usual, otherwise brilliant and practically as struck with much original colour, extremely rare; only six specimens known to the cataloguer, two of which are in institutions £600-800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection.

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Provenance: P.J. Preston-Morley Collection, DNW Auction 52, 28-9 November 2001, lot 1020 [from Baldwin April 1983]