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Auction: 19006 - British, Indian and Islamic Coins: Autumn Auction
Lot: 366

Anne (1702-14), post-Union Halfcrown, 1709 octavo, draped bust left, rev. crowned shields cruciform (ESC 1371 (579); S.3604), peripheral striking softness, and similarly weak to shields, nonetheless with tone and lustre, a pleasing good very fine

Provenance
"W M Maish" collection [?], with his presumed ticket
further stating: 'Rutler, Sydenham, 1896, Rarity 10 of 18, 23 in 50 years of sales. Standard. 232¼[gns]'



For further information about this ticket, see BNJ, 2001, pp.148 and pl. XIV, C49.1-2. As with the case of a 1652 Crown sold through this house (Spink 190, 27 September 2007, lot 499), no parallel is to be found for this in the Maish dispersal at Sotheby's in March 1918. Similarly tentative identifications have been made for Victorian Copper Pennies, Elizabeth I Sixpences and Charles II and Anne Shillings (DNW 59, 7 October 2003), and once again with no supporting evidence from the pages of the 1918 sale listing. Consequently one should probably consider the association of these tickets to 'Maish' as quite doubtful, especially as some even record Maish as apparent earlier provenance.

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Sold for
£270

Starting price
£180