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Auction: 12009 - The Magnus Collection, Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 532

Commonwealth (1649-1660), an electrotype copy of an AE Pattern Farthing, 1652, pitty the poore in three lines, the between harp and shield with cross of St George, rev. svch god loves e r in four lines, god between harp and shield (cf. Peck 369), about as made, test scrape on edge Estimate £ 80-120 provenance: Norweb Collection (SCBI 62, 9369) A late nineteenth or early twentieth century production by Robert Ready or one of his sons, taken from the unique(?) British Museum specimen. The original was probably a private pattern by E. R.

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