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Auction: 18025 - The Pywell-Phillips Collection of English Milled Silver and Copper Coins
Lot: 454

George III (1760-1820), Pattern Halfpenny, 1788, in brown-gilt copper, Late Soho, after Jean-Pierre Droz, diamond stops, laureate head right, d. f. on truncation, rev. inverted die axis, britannia. 1788., Britannia seated left on globe, holding spear and laurel wreath, resting on shield, ship's rudder and palm branch saltired in exergue, ++ render to cesar the things which are cesars: on edge, 16.17g (BMC [Peck] 966; S-), cabinet friction in fields resulting in loss of gilding across highest points, otherwise brilliant surfaces, extremely fine or better

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