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Date Sold	Category	Lot	Description	Sale Price
05/03/2017 Auction 156	English Coins	Lot 2511	Penny 1864 Crosslet 4 Peck 1664 with 239/136 scratched in the obverse field, toned UNC with traces of lustre and a few small spots. The numbers were scratched into the field during the mastership of Professor Thomas Graham (1855-1869) have been shown by G.P.Dyer to represent overall output in tons of bronze coin minted since 1860 (the higher figure) and output in tons of that particular denomination since 1860 (the lower figure) This is not the example pictured in Michael Gouby's 'The British Bronze Penny' - Specialised Edition (Page 49) but displays a superb sharp strike. A highly desirable piece of Victorian bronze coinage history, as stated by Gouby there are only 2 examples known, this, Ex-D.W.Grey 20/10/1971, Lot 111, Ex-Seaby Bulletin, September 1974, item K162, Ex-Sotheby Auction 9/10/1979 Lot 257, Ex-Michael Freeman, and one other, the other example illustrated in Gouby's book being the Ex-Norweb, Ex-A.H.F.Baldwin example, described by Spink as 'Extremely Fine and attractively patinated'. A total of 34 'scratched field' bronze coins are recorded of all dates and denominations, made up of 20 Pennies, 7 Halfpennies and 7 Farthings. Of the 20 Pennies, 12 are known to be in the British Museum Collection, this being one of the remaining 8 available to commerce. An extremely rare opportunity to bid on a piece of Victorian numismatic history. We note a standard currency 1864 Crosslet 4 Penny in UNC sold in our March 2014 auction (Lot 1844) for £3978 inclusive of buyers premium. More coins like this	£9,000
06/03/2016 Auction 152	English Coins	Lot 2241	Farthing 1855 WW Raised Peck 1582 UNC deeply toned, sharply struck, unusual for this date, slabbed and graded CGS 82, a choice example, the finest known of 3 example thus far recorded by the CGS Population Report, Ex-Colin Cooke List 78 More coins like this Signature Sale : The Finchampstead Collection	£150
06/03/2016 Auction 152	English Coins	Lot 2340	Farthings, varieties (8) 1853 WW Raised, Wide Date, Unbarred A's in BRIT CGS Variety 13, EF, slabbed and graded CGS 65, 1853 WW Raised, 12 teeth date width, CGS Variety 14, EF slabbed and graded CGS 60, 1853 WW Raised, Close 3, with traces of a normally positioned 3 EF with Verdigris, in a CGF Yellow Ticket holder, 1853 WW Raised, DEF. in a CGS Yellow Ticket holder Edge Problems EF, 1853 WW Incuse 5 over 5 with broken shamrock stem, CGS Variety 17, slabbed and graded CGS 20, 1854 5 over 5, with filled 4 in date, CGS Variety 03, A/UNC and nicely toned, slabbed and graded CGS 70, 1855 WW Incuse, Lower break to shamrock stem, Unbarred A's in BRITANNIAR, in a CGS Yellow Ticket holder, stained EF, 1855 WW Raised with 1 and both 5's double struck in the date, CGS Variety 06, VF slabbed and graded CGS 45 More coins like this Signature Sale : The Finchampstead Collection	£100
06/03/2016 Auction 152	English Coins	Lot 2240	Farthing 1855 WW Raised High break to shamrock stem, CGS Variety 05, UNC or near so, slabbed and graded CGS 75, the only example thus far recorded by the CGS Population Report, Ex-Croydon Coin Auction 208, September 2008 Lot 413 Signature Sale : The Finchampstead Collection	£65
06/03/2016 Auction 152	English Coins	Lot 2239	Farthing 1855 WW Incuse, Double break to shamrock stem, CGS Variety 03, UNC or near so, toned, slabbed and graded CGS 75 Signature Sale : The Finchampstead Collection	£55
02/03/2014 Auction 144	English Coins	Lot 1480	Farthing 1855 WW Raised Peck 1582 UNC with golden tone, the reverse struck from rusty dies, Ex-Colin Cooke 16/8/2000	£40
02/06/2013 Auction 141	English Coins	Lot 1452	Farthing 1855 WW Raised Peck 1582 UNC with golden tone, the reverse struck from rusty dies, Ex-Colin Cooke 16/8/2000	£48
06/03/2011 Auction 132	English Coins	Lot 950	Farthing 1855 WW incuse Peck 1581 About EF with a few rim nicks	£22
07/12/2009 Auction 127	English Coins	Lot 1425	Farthings (2) 1855 WW Incuse the first 5 over struck, possibly over a 3, 1856 the 6 over struck, possibly over a 5 or 3, both Fine to Good Fine More coins like this	£22
01/03/2009 Auction 124	English Coins	Lot 275	Farthing 1855 WW Raised A/UNC with traces of lustre and scarce in high grade Signature Sale : The Roland Harris Collection	£100
01/03/2009 Auction 124	English Coins	Lot 274	Farthing 1855 WW Incuse UNC with almost full lustre, and one small rim nick on the reverse rim, very rare in high grade Signature Sale : The Roland Harris Collection	£90
01/12/2007 Auction 119	English Coins	Lot 913	Farthings (2) 1855 WW incuse Peck 1581 NEF/EF with lustre traces, 1875 Small Date Freeman 529 dies 3+C NEF/GVF More coins like this	£55
05/06/2005 Auction 109	English Coins	Lot 851	Farthing 1855 Peck 1581 with WW incuse on the truncation, both 5s of the date are double struck, the first clearly over a lower 5, GEF with lustre tra	£38

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