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Printed Auction 32 Lot 247

Middlesex 480a ("exceedingly rare"). Skidmore's (Waters notes that this is the only piece he struck for genuine commercial purposes). Æ halfpenny. 10.37 gm. 28 mm. A register stove; NO 123 HIGH HOLBORN LONDON on sides of the stove; PAYABLE AT SKIDMORES FURNISHING REPOSITORY around / Two men at a forge; MANUFACTORY & IRON FOUNDRY CLERKENWELL; 1795 below. Plain edge. Uncirculated; even dark tone; appears bronzed. There are a few faint parallel lines on the edge suggestive of milling as 480. The Farnell listing (Sotheby's, Dec. 1981:143 lists it as 480a. A tag from Gothic, earlyi 1980's notes the pedigree and the milling traces. The RRR designation in D&H suggests that the authors were aware of very few or even just one example. It requires a particularly sharp and attentive eye to see the marks. So, is this 480 with a weak edge or 480a and the catalogers missed the faint marks?.

Ex Farnell.

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$500

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