Sale 1208
Spink London
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16 November 1999
Price realised
GBP 880
Estimate
Anne, pattern Farthing, 1713, by J Croker, struck in silver en medaille, on a broad thick flan, similar to preceding coin, but no inner linear circle, ANNA AUGUSTA, rev. Anne as Pax driving biga right, date in exergue, PAX. MISSA. PER. ORBEM, edge plain (Peck 762 dies 5+G ER; Hocking 1558), extremely fine, toned, extremely rare
Provenance
S Addington, private transaction 1885 H Montagu, Sotheby, 15 July 1897, lot 159 T Bliss, Sotheby, 22 March 1916, lot 582 V M Brand, collection dispersed post mortem, from 1932 Mrs E M H Norweb, part 2, Spink Auction 48, 13 November 1985, lot 509
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The library of the novelist included a translation by a brilliant young mathematician that foresaw the age of computing
Offered in the ONE sale on 10 July in New York, Annie epitomises the genre that made the artist one of the most celebrated of his generation