The Late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection

Thomas Spence series, Mule Halfpence (6), man in prison gnawing bone, revs. Britannia, edge plain, 10.64g/6h (DH 849), cat, spence edge, 10.76g/7h (DH 850), three armed citizens (2), london and engrailed edge, 9.06g/6h (DH 851), edge grained, 9.86g/6h (DH 851a), lion and cock (2), london and engrailed edge, 9.21g/5h (DH 852), edge plain, 10.58g/5h (DH 852a) [6]. DH 851a extremely fine with much faded original colour, others generally about extremely fine, DH 851a and 852a very rare, mostly from the obverse die in unflawed state
£250-300

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

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Provenance: DH 849 bt W. Noyes May 1986 [from Baldwin and J.A. Bobbe]; DH 850 bt J.A. Bobbe June 1996; DH 851 SCMB June 1964, bt J.A. Bobbe July 1984; DH *851a and 852a F.S. Cokayne Collection, bt A. Davisson April 1998; DH 852 J.A. Bobbe Collection [acquired December 1979], bt J.A.B. October 1993