CNG 108, Lot: 1215. Estimate $400. Sold for $775. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HANOVER. Victoria. 1837-1901. Antimony Pattern Centum (28mm, 10.77 g, 6h). Smith’s Decimal Patterns by Marrian & Gausby. Birmingham mint. Dated 1846. Young head left, with hair bound with double fillet; MARRIAN & GAUSBY D · BIRM · / SMITH ON DECIMAL CURRENCY * 1846 *, ONE/CENTUM in two lines. Freeman 823 note; Peck, p. 479, note 2. AU, a few light marks. Rare.

From the Anthony Halse Collection of British Pattern Coins.