Watch List notes:

STUART (ORANGE). William III. 1694-1702. CU Farthing (23mm, 2.34 g, 6h). London (Tower) mint. Dated 1697. GVLIELMVS · TERTIVS, laureate and armored bust right / BRITAN NIA ·, Britannia seated left on globe, holding olive branch in right hand and craddling pole in left elbow; garnished Union shield below; 1697 in exergue. Cf. Peck 659; SCBC 3557. Good VF, possibly a Proof, some flan flaws. Struck on a very thin flan. Very rare.


Ex Colin D. Cooke Collection (Colin Cooke, 26 May 2006), lot 546; Spink Numismatic Circular XCI.2 (March 1983), no. 1159.