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Auction 102  4 October 2016
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Lot 2708

Estimate: 60 GBP
Price realized: 45 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 eight strings, top of head under C of ACT, top of harp to middle of R of PARLIAMENT, O of INCORPORATED low, AT of INCORPORATED touch, ED of INCORPORATED touch, second A of PARLIAMENT above I, 179 lean right, rev H M Co. cypher, TURNER CAMAC CHAIRMAN HALFPENNY, top of cypher C points to centre of H of CHAIRMAN, MA of CAMAC touch, C of CHAIRMAN below H, H of CHAIRMAN below I, N of CHAIRMAN below second A, first N of HALFPENNY below E, Y of HALFPENNY leans left and touches N, edge PAYABLE IN DUBLIN OR BALLYMURTAGH (D&H Dublin 297). Evidence of old lacquer, nearly very fine for issue and very rare.

ex L L Fletcher Collection
Turner Camac (1751-1830), John Kyan (1743-1801), and John Camac (1769-1843), partners in the Hibernian Mine Company, Dublin

Estimate: £60-80
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