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Buckinghamshire, Aylesbury, Lutwyche’s Halfpenny, 1796, laureate bust of William III right, rev. cap of Liberty and crossed flags, edge plain, 14.10g/12h (DH 7c; Preston-Morley 1025). Tiny metal fault on obverse rim at 6 o’clock and die polishing marks on reverse, otherwise practically as struck, obverse with full original colour; superior to the Preston-Morley specimen and perhaps the finest in private hands £250-300

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

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Provenance: W. Anderson Collection, Davissons Mailbid Sale 13, 25 April 2000 (505); J. Spingarn Collection FPL (5), recté DH 7c; bt J.S. February 2001.

Illustrated in CTCJ, Winter 2006/7, p.7