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Auction 151  14 Nov 2018
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Lot 342

Estimate: 500 GBP
Price realized: 1400 GBP
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Victoria (1837-1901), Pattern Farthing, 1860 [struck c. 1887], unsigned [probably by L.C. Lauer for 'A. Weyl'], in tin, young head left, rev. cruciform shields with roses, thistle and shamrock in angles, edge plain, 2.67g/12h (Pearce, BNJ 2011, pp.196-7; Cooke 170; F 901; BMC 2170). Obverse slightly cloudy and with trifling metal flaws, otherwise virtually as struck, of the highest rarity £500-£700

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Provenance: An Unusual and Important Group of "Weyl" Patterns, Glendining Auction, 15 December 1993, lot 269 (where Anthony Dowle postulated that it could be the Murdoch specimen); DNW Auction 129, 18 March 2015, lot 472
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