Rare Original Strike

421, Lot: 791. Estimate $250. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HANOVER. Victoria. 1837-1901. CU Pattern 2 Cents (29.5mm, 11.17 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 · below / SMITH ON DECIMAL CURRENCY * 1846 *, 2/CENTS in two lines. Freeman 819; Peck 2082. Good VF, brown surfaces, trace of red, light marks, small efge bump. Rare.

From the Anthony Halse Collection of British Pattern Coins.