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Auction: 11024 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 254

Ireland, Free State, pattern Sixpence, 4.01g, struck in nickel, 1927, by Publio Morbiducci, harp, prova to right, date below, inscription above, rev. wolfhound standing left, looking back, some light stains, as struck, an extremely rare pattern for the coinage of the Irish Free State, only four known Estimate £ 3,000-4,000 provenance The Millennial Collection, Whtye´s Dublin, 29 April 2000, lot 449 (part) Publio Morbiducci archive collection, sold by his widow, Nicoletta Olga Morbiducci, in 1976.

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