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Auction: 24123 - British and World Coins and Medals featuring the Pritchard Collection of 18th Century Provincial Tokens and Commemorative Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 816

HAMPSHIRE, Portsmouth, Thomas Sharp, Silver Halfpenny, 1797, Neptune crowning seated figure of Sir John Jervis with a wreath, rev. SR JOHN JERVIS WITH 15 SAIL PURSUED & DEFEATED THE SPANISH FLEET OF 27 SAIL OF THELINE FEBRUARY 14th 1797 in seven lines, plain edge, 5g, 12.07g (D&H 63; BHM 434), lightest of contact marking upon dark silver and toned surfaces, lustrous, extremely fine and a handsomely intricate obverse more akin to medallic striking than those of the token series

The Pritchard Collection of 18th Century Provincial Tokens and Commemorative Medals


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