Pattern Halfpenny, 1788, by J G Hancock for Moore, struck in copper, en medaille, laureate bust right, GEORGIVS III REX. border of slanted teeth, rev. female figure seated left on a stone cube, holding cornucopia beckoning to ship at left, lion crouching behind, date in exergue, border of wheat-ears, edge, ARMIS TUTERIS MORIBUS ORNES . x . (P.928 [this coin]; Montagu 756; Murdoch 342), pitting on X of REX, extremely fine, toned, extremely rare

Details

Pattern Halfpenny, 1788, by J G Hancock for Moore, struck in copper, en medaille, laureate bust right, GEORGIVS III REX. border of slanted teeth, rev. female figure seated left on a stone cube, holding cornucopia beckoning to ship at left, lion crouching behind, date in exergue, border of wheat-ears, edge, ARMIS TUTERIS MORIBUS ORNES . x . (P.928 [this coin]; Montagu 756; Murdoch 342), pitting on X of REX, extremely fine, toned, extremely rare

Provenance

A H F Baldwin, private transaction, April 1964
Mrs E M H Norweb, Spink Auction 48, 13 November 1985, lot 562