Adelaide Assay Office
Lot 383 SESSION 2 (7.30pm Tuesday) Adelaide Assay Office
Estimate $1,500
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ADELAIDE POUND, 1852, second type, trial strike in lead, from the dies in early die state. Damaged otherwise fine and excessively rare.
The Ingots and Assay Office pieces of South Australia, Melbourne (1953), Hunt Deacon, listed two on p.65 as 14 (a) (South Australia National Collection) and 14 b listed in 1915 N. Circular, present whereabouts unknown - this may be the example sold in Spink Stern Sale October 1975 (lot 22) (ex Capt Vivien Hewitt). In June this year Spink London sold, at auction, an irregular shaped flan striking with obverse only.
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