275, Lot: 398. Estimate $150. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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1760 ‘Voce Populi’ Halfpenny. (27mm, 6.85 g, 6h). Roche’s (Dublin) mint. Laureate male head right / Hibernia seated left on harp, holding flower and pole. Zelinka 7-E; Nelson-Vlack 3; Whitman W-13930; Breen 227; DF 574. Fine
for issue, some roughness on the reverse. Popular variety featuring a die crack in the ‘C’ of ‘VOCE,’ giving the appearance of a second ‘O’.