Lot Archive

Lot

№ 962

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5 October 2011

Hammer Price:
£75

Cumberland, Hensingham, Low Hall Colliery, Sir Wilfred Lawson, Kempson’s Halfpenny, 1797, horse working a whin-gin, miner guiding basket, rev. legend in three lines, edge plain, 9.97g/12h (DH 1; Finlay 27; D & W 291/107). Fine £30-50

Provenance: W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 66 (part) [from Coin Galleries 1966]