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Auction 102  4 October 2016
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Lot 2696

Estimate: 80 GBP
Price realized: 60 GBP
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BRITISH 18TH CENTURY TOKENS, IRELAND, Hibernian Mine Company, Copper Halfpenny, 1792, obv seated figure of Hibernia left, INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT 1792, harp with six strings, top of head under second stroke of A of ACT, top of harp to middle of R of PARLIAMENT, A of ACT taller than C, O of OF recut to left, P of PARLIAMENT recut to left, A of PARLIAMENT taller than P and R, rev H M Co. cypher, TURNER CAMAC CHAIRMAN HALFPENNY, top of cypher C points to first downstroke of H of CHAIRMAN, H of HALFPENNY above A, P of HALFPENNY above F and E, NNY of HALFPENNY touch, edge PAYABLE IN DUBLIN OR BALLYMURTAGH (D&H Dublin 270). On an incomplete planchet, otherwise nearly fine for issue and very rare.

ex L L Fletcher Collection, acquired 29 October 1927 for 9d
Turner Camac (1751-1830), John Kyan (1743-1801), and John Camac (1769-1843), partners in the Hibernian Mine Company, Dublin

Estimate: £80-100
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