BRITISH COINS


339


Restrike Pattern Penny, 1860, by J. Moore for E. Shorthouse, type 4, in bronzed-copper, laureate bust left, rev. Britannia seated half-left, edge plain, 9.36g/12h (F 861; BMC 2133). Characteristic group of rust spots on neck polished out, usual minor rust marks in reverse field and Britannia weakly struck up, about extremely fine, rare £300-£400


340


Pattern Penny, 1860, by J. Moore, type 5, in copper, coronetted bust left, rev. Britannia seated right on rock, ONE PENNY above, date below, edge plain, 9.59g/12h (F 863; BMC 2135). Nearly extremely fine, very rare


£400-£500


341 Penny, 1862, dies Jg, no signatures (F 39; BMC 1653; S 3954). Extremely fine with considerable original colour £80-£100


342


Pattern Farthing, 1860 [struck c. 1887], unsigned [probably by L.C. Lauer for ‘A. Weyl’], in tin, young head left, rev. cruciform shields with roses, thistle and shamrock in angles, edge plain, 2.67g/12h (Pearce, BNJ 2011, pp.196-7; Cooke 170; F 901; BMC 2170). Obverse slightly cloudy and with trifling metal flaws, otherwise virtually as struck, of the highest rarity


£500-£700


Provenance: An Unusual and Important Group of “Weyl” Patterns, Glendining Auction, 15 December 1993, lot 269 (where Anthony Dowle postulated that it could be the Murdoch specimen); DNW Auction 129, 18 March 2015, lot 472


343


Provenance: Bt Spink Smith on Decimal Currency, Pattern One Centum, 1846, by Marrian & Gausby, in silver, bust left, rev. value, edge


plain, 12.10g/6h (BMC p.479; F p.188). Extremely fine but cleaned with resultant hairlining, very rare £300-£400


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