Coins, Historical Medals and Antiquities

George III (1760-1820), Pre-1816 issues, Pattern Halfpenny, 1788 (late Soho), by J.-P. Droz, in brown-gilt copper, laureate bust right, rev. Britannia seated left on globe, leaf-and-berry pattern border to robe, edge render to cesar the things which are cesars :, 16.12g/6h (BMC 966 [DH 11]; Selig 1333). Fields hairlined, otherwise brilliant and virtually as struck £400-£500

Provenance: Baldwin vault; Baldwin Auction 60, 5-6 May 2009, lot 879, recté BMC 966