Special Collections

Sold on 3 February 1999

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The Magnay Collection of Fractional Farthings and Victorian Pattern Pennies

David Magnay

Lot

№ 295

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3 February 1999

Hammer Price:
£130

Victoria (1837-1901), Restrike Pattern Penny, 1860, type 4 [4+D], bronzed, similar, edge plain, struck en médaille, 9.41gm (Freeman 861 [not in Sale]; BMC 2133; cf. DNW 36, 155). Characteristic group of rust spots on neck polished out, usual minor rust marks in reverse field and Britannia weakly struck up, light spotting in obverse field, otherwise brilliant and practically as struck with sharp rims, rare (£150-180)

Ex Spink Auction 89 (253) where described as BMC 2129