Special Collections

Sold on 3 February 1999

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The Magnay Collection of Fractional Farthings and Victorian Pattern Pennies

David Magnay

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№ 253

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3 February 1999

Hammer Price:
£250

Victoria (1837-1901), Proof Third-Farthing, 1884, bronze, edge plain, struck en médaille, 0.97gm (BMC –; SC –; Prid. Malta 11A). Obverse spotted, otherwise extremely fine with brilliant surfaces, extremely rare (£120-140)

Ex Lobel FPL 20, Aug. 1977 (283). Recorded by Batty and Pridmore, but not by Peck and later writers