Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1488. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IRELAND. George I. 1714-1727. AR Presentation Farthing (4.32 gm). William Wood’s coinage, dated 1723. GEORGIUS • DEI • GRATIA • REX •, laureate head right / HIBERNIA • 1723 •, Hibernia seated left holding branch, left elbow on harp. SCBC P6601; Coincraft IG1FA-030; Breen 173. Proof, with reflective, lustrous fields, typical spotty toning, some minor hairlines. Extremely rare. (See color enlargement on plate 23.) ($2500) Same obverse die as the Picker Specimen (Stack's, 24 October 1984), lot 73, with the small die break extending from the point of the bust to the rim.

Same obverse die as the Picker Specimen (Stack's, 24 October 1984), lot 73, with the small die break extending from the point of the bust to the rim.