Special Collections

Sold on 3 February 1999

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The Magnay Collection of Fractional Farthings and Victorian Pattern Pennies

David Magnay

Lot

№ 289

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3 February 1999

Hammer Price:
£500

Victoria (1837-1901), Pattern Penny, 1860, type 4 [1+D], silver, laureate bust left, reverse Britannia seated to left on rock, no legend, edge plain, struck en médaille, 12.12gm (Freeman 854 [Sale, lot 285, this coin]; BMC 2127, this coin; cf. DNW 36, 154). Light cabinet friction on Queen’s face, usual minor rust marks in reverse field, otherwise brilliant and practically as struck, attractively toned, extremely rare (£550-650)

Ex Peck and Freeman (285). At least three specimens known. For an explanation of why the reverse die exhibits rust marks while the obverse is rust-free, see BMC p.486