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Auction: 3024 - The Slaney Collection of English Coins
Lot: 250

James II (1685-88), tin Farthing, 5.62g., 1685, copper plug at centre, laureate and cuirassed bust facing right, iacobvs. secvndvs, toothed border both sides, rev. inverted die axis, Britannia seated left, holding palm branch, with spear and shield, plain exergue, britan nia., edge, inscribed in raised letters of inverted axis, nvmmorvm* famvlvs* 1685 (Peck 546; S.3420), four small active corrosion spots on obverse, reverse and edge free of corrosion, small rim nick on reverse, attractive patina, extremely fine for this very rare issue Estimate £800-1,000 provenance R A Hoblyn, Sotheby, 7 December 1906, lot 150 part

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