Watch List notes:

BRITISH WEST AFRICA, Edward VIII, specimen or trial striking of the reverse of the shilling 1936 H (Heaton Birmingham) struck from the punch so that the design on this is incuse (or intaglio) on a shallow silver shell (V.320). Extremely fine and excessively rare.

Purchased from Spink in 1980, Noble Numismatics Sale 61b (W.J. Noble Collection) (lot 1677), Mark E. Freehill Collection.