Sierra Leone
Lot 1721 SESSION 7 (11.30am Wednesday) Sierra Leone
Estimate $250
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $420
SIERRA LEONE, bronzed copper proof penny, 1791, 30.9 mm, (16.9 grams), (KM.2.2, See Vice 8, Vice 5 [p.220]). FDC.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 54 (lot 3542). This issue is a lightweight version of the Sierra Leone Company issue struck on a smaller flan. Ordered by Macaulay in December 1813. The obverse was struck from the old Company fifty cent die. It is visually distinguishable from the old Company penny by the presence of two blades of grass below the S of Sierra. The design was rejected by Macaulay in favour of the token possessing an anti-slavery device. Restruck in later years under the misconception that they represented the original Sierra Leone Company penny.
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Lot 1719
SIERRA LEONE, bronzed copper proof penny, 1791, sterling system (Vice FT8A; KM.2.1) edge plain, collar ...
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Lot 1720
SIERRA LEONE, bronzed copper proof cent, 1791 (Vice FT 9A; KQ1), edge plain but with ...
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Lot 1721 This lot
SIERRA LEONE, bronzed copper proof penny, 1791, 30.9 mm, (16.9 grams), (KM.2.2, See Vice 8, ...
Estimate $250
Lot 1722
SIERRA LEONE, bronzed copper penny 1791, ordered by Macaulay in December 1813, struck on a ...
Estimate $300
Lot 1723
SIERRA LEONE, bronzed copper penny, 1791, sterling system (Vice FT5;KM.2.2) two blades of grass on ...
Estimate $200