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Auction: 18025 - The Pywell-Phillips Collection of English Milled Silver and Copper Coins
Lot: 458

George III (1760-1820), Pattern Farthing, 1790, a later striking in bronzed copper, by W J Taylor after Jean-Pierre Droz, diamond and flower stops, laureate head right, rev. inverted die axis, britan-nia Britannia seated left on globe, holding spear and shield in left hand, right hand pointing, dr. f. and date in exergue, edge plain, 6.44g (BMC [Peck] 1035; S-), cabinet friction and fingermarks across otherwise brilliant surfaces, extremely fine or better, very rare

provenance
CNG Mailbid sale 42, 29 May 1997, lot 1504 (via Cooke, August 1997)

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£1,600