Great Britain Silver & Bronze
Lot 2935 Session 10 (7:30pm Wednesday) Great Britain Silver & Bronze
Estimate $1,200
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WILLIAM AND MARY, tin halfpenny, 1689, obverse first conjoined draped busts right, GVLIELMVS. ET .MARIA, toothed border reverse, 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 Sotheby's, 20 December 1926, lot 56 (part) and A.E.Weightman.
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