Paul Skidmore series, Churches, Halfpence (15), Soho, St Ann’s, edge plain, 14.65g/12h (DH 627); Spitalfields, Church, coventry edge, 13.91g/12h (DH 628); Strand, St Clement’s (2), edge plain, 11.42g/12h (DH 631), coventry edge, 13.67g/5h (DH 631, edge unlisted); Thames Street, Allhallows, edge plain, 13.32g/12h (DH 632); Threadneedle Street, St Mary Outwich (2), undated, edge plain, 11.26g/11h (DH 634), 1797, edge plain, 12.11g/12h (DH 635); Tower Hill, Chapel in the Tower, edge plain, 11.73g/12h (DH 636); Walbrook, St Stephen’s (2), type 1, edge plain, 11.00g/12h (DH 638), type 3, edge plain, 12.73g/12h (DH 639); Westminster, St James’s, edge plain, 12.27g/12h (DH 641); West Smithfield, St Bartholomew the Great, undated, edge plain, 11.78g/12h (DH 542); St Bartholomew the Less, edge plain, 10.69g/12h (DH 544); Wood Street, St Alban’s, coventry edge, 13.63g/10h (DH 644); St Michael’s, edge plain, 12.40g/12h (DH 645) [15]. DH 544 and 632 lacquered, others about extremely fine and better, many with original colour, especially DH 631 with unlisted edge, 638, 639 and 641, 627 from the obverse die in broken state, this rare £300-400

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

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Provenance: DH 542 M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 53, 19 June 1986, lot 232 (part), bt R. Gladdle August 1986; DH 544 SCMB September 1975, M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 53, 19 June 1986, lot 232 (part), bt R. Gladdle August 1986; DH 627 bt J. Spingarn August 1997; DH 628 T.A. Jan Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 26, 9 February 1983, lot 313 (part), bt J.A. Bobbe July 1984; DH 631 bt J.A. Bobbe January 1984; *DH 631 edge unlisted bt J.A. Bobbe May 1999; DH 632 bt M.Z. Gerson June 1980; DH 634 J.A. Bobbe Collection [acquired December 1979], bt J.A.B. July 1984; DH 635 bt J.A. Bobbe September 1994; DH 636 and 645 bt M.Z. Gerson April 1980; DH 638 R.W. Randall Collection, Spink Auction 19, 3 March 1982, lot 394 (part), J.A. Bobbe Collection, bt J.A.B. December 1984; DH 639 with Seaby 1962, bt R. Gladdle January 1990; DH 641 bt J.A. Bobbe December 1982; DH 644 with Baldwin, bt J.A. Bobbe January 1984