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Lancashire, Lancaster, Thomas Worswick & Sons, imitation Halfpence, 1794 (17), small date (7), no star below bust (3), LANCASTER edge, 9.71g/6h (DH 39), plain edges (2), 7.08g/6h (DH 39b), 7.59g/12h (DH 40a); star below bust (4), LANCASTER edge, 9.63g/6h (DH 41), BIRMINGHAM edge, 8.91g/6h (DH 41b), HAYMARKET edge, 9.32g/6h (DH 41d), plain edge, 10.74g/6h (DH 42); large date (10), period at end of obv. legend (2), LANCASTER edge, 9.07g/6h (DH 43), TEMPLE edge, 9.35g/6h (DH 43b), no period (2), LANCASTER edge, 8.93g/6h (DH 44), DUBLIN edge, 8.82g/6h (DH 44a), period after rev. legend (4), LANCASTER edge, 9.02g/6h (DH 45), LONDON edge, 8.80g/6h (DH 45a), MACCLESFIELD edge, 9.38g/6h (DH 45b), DUBLIN edge, 8.94g/6h (DH 45c), star under bust (2), LANCASTER edge, 10.10g/6h (DH 46), BATH edge, 9.79g/6h (DH 46a); Lutwyche’s mule Halfpence (6), revs. arms of Liverpool, 10.40g/6h (DH 50), Bishop Blaize, 10.60g/6h (DH 51), river-god, 7.79g/6h (DH 53), standing Britannia, plain edge, 9.87g/6h (DH 54), bust of Prince of Wales (2), LANCASTER edge, 11.23g/6h (DH 55), BANBURY edge, 11.14g/6h (DH 55a) [23]. DH 39, 41d, 43, 43b, 46a, 50 and 54 very fine and better, others in varied state, some rare £140-180

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

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Provenance: DH 39 bt J.A. Bobbe May 1997; DH 39b, 42, 45a, 45c and 55a bt A. Davisson July 1996; DH 40a bt S. Cordova November 1987; DH 41, 41b, 44 and 46 bt P. Flanagan April 1980; DH 41d bt J.A. Bobbe February 1996; DH 43 bt D.W. Loring September 1978; DH 43b bt P. Flanagan December 1979; DH 44a bt M.Z. Gerson April 1978; DH 45 bt S. Cordova February 1990; DH 45b bt S. Cordova January 1994; DH 46a Coin Galleries Mailbid Sale, 12 April 2000 (1116); *DH 50 J.R. Farnell Collection, Part I, Sotheby Parke Bernet Auction (New York), 8 December 1981, lot 69 (part), P.C. Deane Collection, W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 230 (part) [from P.C.D. 1985], bt R. Gladdle November 1998; DH 51 and 55 bt S. Cordova May 1988; DH 53 bt J. Spingarn March 1997; DH 54 bt M.Z. Gerson March 1982