Ayrshire 1799 half penny D&H-5
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This specimen was lot 23104 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2018), where it sold for $900. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Pattern 1/2 Penny, 1799. Ayrshire Mint. George, Prince of Wales as Steward of Scotland. NGC PROOF-65 BN. RARE. Plain edge. Struck by J. Milton for Colonel Fullerton of Scotland. Exceptional strike details with lovely electric blue highlights over lovely chocolate brown surfaces."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-5; Forrer-vol. IV pg. 82#3 (for Milton) & vol. II pg. 170 (for Fullerton).
- [1]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio, John Kraljevich and Cris Chatigny, The January 2018 NYINC Sale: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2017.
- Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
- Conder, James. An arrangement of Provincial Coins, tokens, and medalets issued in Great Britain, Ireland, and the colonies, within the last twenty years, from the farthing to the penny size. Ipswich: G. Jermyn, 1798.
- Dalton, Richard, and Samuel H. Hamer. The Provincial Token Coinage of the 18th Century. 1910-1917.
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