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Auction: 18025 - The Pywell-Phillips Collection of English Milled Silver and Copper Coins
Lot: 553

William IV (1830-37), Maundy Threepences (6), 1831; 1832; 1833 over 1 (?); 1834; 1835; 1837, bare head right, rev. crowned mark of value (S.3842); additionally, Currency Threepence [for use in the West Indies], 1836 (ESC 2533 {2046; S.3838), all but last with proof-like surfaces, extremely fine to about as struck, the overdate not previously recorded (6)

provenance
iii) DNW 135, 21 March 2016, lot 767 - wherein noted as a possible unrecorded currency striking for the West Indies on account of rim striking weakness; an opinion for which the present cataloguer expresses scepticism given the overt residual brilliance in fields and having noted similar 'overdate' Threepences within complete Maundy sets sold in London in March 2013 (Spink 216, lot 841), and also in March 2016 (DNW 135, lot 359), both also exhibiting similar rim softness

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