The Late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection

Devon, Puddington, William Waller, Halfpenny, 1797, bust right, from the unfinished die with thick hair and eye not yet added, rev. ship sailing right, edge plain, 8.88g/6h (DH Bedfordshire 4, this piece illustrated; Dickinson, TCSB September 2008, no.1, this piece). Tiny graze behind head, otherwise extremely fine and patinated, of the highest rarity and the finest known example; believed only one other extant £2,000-3,000

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

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Provenance: F.S. Cokayne Collection; N.T. Bagshawe Collection, Glendining Auction, 3 November 2000, lot 773, recté DH 4 and illus. as 774 in error [from Baldwin April 1951]; bt R. Gladdle September 2001