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

№ 269

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3 February 1999

Hammer Price:
£580

Victoria (1837-1901), Pattern Penny, 1860, type 2 [1+B], silver, laureate bust left, reverse Britannia seated to left on rock, GREAT BRITAIN one penny, edge plain, struck en médaille, 12.08gm (Freeman 834 [Sale, lot 272, this coin]; BMC 2107). Light hairlines on bust, otherwise brilliant and practically as struck, nicely toned, extremely rare (£550-650)

Ex Freeman (272)