Special Collections

Sold on 3 February 1999

1 part

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The Magnay Collection of Fractional Farthings and Victorian Pattern Pennies

David Magnay

Lot

№ 236

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3 February 1999

Hammer Price:
£620

Victoria (1837-1901), Pattern Half-Farthing, 1857, by L.C. and J. Wyon, bronze, young bust left, reverse Britannia, HALF FARTHING above, 1 CENTIME below, edge plain, struck en médaille, 1.13gm (BMC 1979; Freeman 684 [Sale, lot 197]; cf. Norweb 674). Light die flaw on bust and in exergue, otherwise brilliant and practically as struck with original colour, extremely rare (£250-300)

Bt P. Deane