Lot 1289

Description

Edinburgh, water filter halfpenny, 1796 (D&H 1) (illustrated), stag's head halfpennies, 1796 (D&H 2,3)die break on reverse from 6 o'clock to centre; Anderson Leslie and Co's, halfpenny 1797 (D&H 7) (illustrated), Archibald's halfpenny, undated (D&H 9 (2)), 1796 (D&H 10,12 (illustrated)), Campbell's halfpennies, 1795, 1796 (D&H 13, b (illustrated), 14a, 15, 17, 18 (Spence's highlander die) (illustrated); Harrison's halfpenny, 1796 (D&H 19,20,21 (illustrated). Mostly extremely fine-nearly uncirculated, the last extremely rare. (15)

D&H 9,10 from Seaby in 1973, 13b from Spink in 1975, 21 from Davisson's ex Jan Collection, 15 from F. Schwer in 1986, 3,20 acquired in 1960's, the others ex J.R. Farnell Collection, part II lot 86 part.