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Hi all, Would anyone be interested in the below ? Im looking for £575 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Queen Anne (1702 – 14) Pattern Farthing in Lead, bust left, ANNA AVGVSTA. rev. Peace standing in biga, PAX MISSA PER ORBEM (cf. BMC 766 for specimen in tin) Porous flan, fine, and believed to be unique thus extremely rare. Provenance Ex Archbishop Sharp* Collection, Glendinings 5th October 1977, lot 274 Ex The Colin Cooke Collection, lot 497 * Dr John Sharp (1645 – 1714) was Archbishop of York from 1691 until his death in 1714, and from a note in his Will it is known that he began collecting coins in 1687. As a noted numismatist of his day, many of the coins such as this rare piece would have been bought contemporary to the time when they were made.
