Watch List notes:

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, Johnson Matthey & Co., advertising checks for refiners for coinage Hatton Garden utilising official Royal Mint obverse dies for twenty and ten cents 1871-7, struck in aluminium (1.5g and 1.0g) at the Royal Mint and exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1878 (see Pridmore lot 192; R.J.Ford lots 650, 1). Uncirculated and rare. (2)

Ex W.J.Noble (Sale 61B, lot 1465, previously from Spink Sale (lot 677) and Mark E.Freehill collections.