Lot 1061

Description

(Peek & Campbell), Tea Stores, Sydney, penny, 1852 (A.427) by J.C Thornthwaite. Struck in high relief, the obverse clear, reverse slightly doubled, even light choclate brown patina, hints of verdigris at reverse rim 9.30 o'clock trace of old scratching in field behind Britannia otherwise good extremely fine and extremely rare, the finest or equal to the finest of six known.

This specimen is being sold on behalf of descendants of Samuel Peek and it has remained in the family until now. It was shown to the cataloguer at the ANS exhibition at Sydney Town Hall in Febuary 1966 where it was photographed by G.C Heyde for his work Uunofficial Coins of Australia and New Zealand published by Renniks, Adelaide 1966 and illustrated on page 42. It is one of the classics of the entire series.