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Auction 102  4 October 2016
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Lot 2714

Estimate: 250 GBP
Price realized: 280 GBP
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BRITISH 18TH CENTURY TOKENS, IRELAND, Hibernian Mine Company, Copper Halfpenny (7), 1793, all plain edge, obv seated crowned figure of Hibernia right, PAYABLE AT DUBLIN OR BALLYMURTAGH, point of still to lower right serif of E of PAYABLE, T of AT leans right, rev cypher H M Co without flourishes, CAMAC . KYAN . AND . CAMAC with ONE . HALFPENNY in arc below cypher, MA of first CAMAC touch, AN of KYAN touch (2) (D&H Dublin 239); obv harp string five nearly touches hand (D&H Dublin 240); obv harp string six is incomplete and intersects with the middle of the hand (2), rev all letters of AND touch, AM of second CAMAC touch, 1 recut to left, horizontal stroke of 7 recut below (Conder p.190, 34; Atkins p.338, 86; D&H Dublin 244); rev YA of KYAN touch, D of AND tilts right, faint signs of MOSSOP . F visible above date (D&H Dublin 245); obv point of still to middle of L of PAYABLE, rev second downstroke of M of second CAMAC recut at bottom, P of HALFPENNY recut at bottom (Conder p.190, 35; Atkins p.338, 88; D&H Dublin 247); obv point of still to middle of L of PAYABLE, B of DUBLIN recut to top, rev second downstroke of cypher H loops through first apex of cypher M, MA of first CAMAC touch, YAN of KYAN touch, AN of AND touch, first C of second CAMAC recut to left, AMA of second CAMAC touch, horizontal stroke of 7 recut below (Atkins p.338, 90a; D&H Dublin 248a); obv M of BALLYMURTAGH recut, rev MA of first CAMAC touch, YAN of KYAN touch, AN of AND touch, first C of second CAMAC recut to left, AMA of second CAMAC touch (D&H Dublin 250). D&H 244 and 247 with lightly wiped surfaces, D&H 247 from rusted dies, others generally fine to very fine, D&H 240, 245, 247 and 250 rare, D&H 248a very rare. (7)

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

Estimate: £250-350
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