Adelaide Assay Office
Lot 386 SESSION 2 (Tuesday 7.30pm) Adelaide Assay Office
Estimate $25,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $30,000
PORT PHILLIP, Kangaroo Office, pattern twopence, undated (1853) by W.J.Taylor, in copper from the obverse of A.573, the reverse having a figure 2 on a trellised base and surrounded by a broad raised rim with two pence in relief. Nearly FDC and excessively rare, only three known.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 46 (lot 1509), A.H.F.Baldwin and Utrecht (lot 1952) collections.
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