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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 427

James II (1685-1688), Tin Farthing, 1687, laureate and draped bust right, rev. Britannia seated left, NVMMORVM FAMVLVS on edge, 5.82g, 6h (BMC [Peck] 557-560; S.3420), the reverse largely corroded, yet the portrait better, struck details bolder than very fine / fine, rare; another, 1686, similar but with cuirassed bust right, rev. Britannia seated left, NVMMORVM FAMVLVS * 1686 * on edge, 5.32g, 6h (BMC [Peck] 552; S.3420), a better all-round coin than first with hints of original colour in recesses and pleasing detail to parts of portrait, a bolder very fine for type with modest areas of tin pest (2)

Provenance

The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection (1870-1941)

i) Acquired from Messrs Spink & Son, 1 September 1898 - £0.15.0

Spink Numismatic Circular, September 1898 (P.2984, no. 48116) - "Farthing, 1685" - £0.15.0



ii) Acquired privately, by April 1913 - £1.10.0

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