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Lot 2127    Session 7 (11.30pm)    Other Properties

Estimate $1,400
Bid at live.noble.com.au

WILLIAM AND MARY, tin halfpenny, 1689, obv. first conjoined draped busts right, GVLIELMVS. ET .MARIA, toothed border rev. inverted die axis, Britannia seated left on globe, with shield, spear and spray of leaves, blank exergue, [BRITAN NIA] legend, edge inscribed in raised letters, trace only NVMMORVM*FAMVLVS*1689* (Peck 561, from a different die to piece illustrated - the legend close to the busts; S.3447). Lacking much due to corrosion, poor to fair but extremely rare.

Ex Baldwin's, Auction 50, April 24, 2007 (lot 316) The Gregory Collection and previously from Sothebys, 20 December 1926, lot 56 (part) and A.E.Weightman.

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