Rare Pattern Farthing

CNG 90, Lot: 2634. Estimate $500. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

COMMONWEALTH. 1649-1660. Pattern CU Farthing (23mm, 3.83 g, 6h). Tower (London) mint; im: mullet. THVS ◊ VNITED ◊ INVINCIBLE, three composite-order columns bound together by rope; surmounting each column, a cross, harp, [and thistle] respectively; ·R· below / AND ◊ GOD ◊ DIRECT ◊ OVR CORSE, ship under sail left. Peck 387; North 2738; SCBC -. Near VF, rough brown surfaces, trace of hard green deposit on the obverse. Rare.

From the Ian Gordon Collection. Ex Clarence & Helen Zaar Maritime Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 87, 18 May 2011), lot 2108.