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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robp, post: 20168877, member: 96746&quot;]A handful of coins, all ex-Murdoch and Roberts collections. J G Murdoch is well known from his sales post-mortem in 1903-4, but Evan Roberts not so. He was a clock repairer, whose collection of timepieces is now displayed in the V &amp; A museum in London. The coins purchased in 1903 were eventually sold in two lots - the base metal coins sold through Glendining (1993) and the gold at a provincial sale in Plymouth (2008).</p><p><br /></p><p>Attribution was made possible by the contents of the 2 sales a century or so after the Murdoch sale matching the lots bought by Roberts. As the number of coins involved was 70, the circumstantial evidence was overwhelming. I wrote an article regarding the Weyl patterns to this effect in the 2011 BNJ.</p><p><br /></p><p>Weyl 1887 pattern halfpenny struck in tin with a milled edge. Also ex Nicholson.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1540260[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>1860 pattern halfpenny struck in tin with a milled edge</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1540261[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>1790 restrike halfpenny, Peck type R64. Due to the vagueness of the description in the Murdoch catalogue, it was only possible to positively identify the Soho pattern die combinations and hence the type involved, in 2008.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1540262[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>1860 obverse uniface penny</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1540264[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>1860 penny struck in lead. Also ex-Colin Adams</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1540265[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>All of these are unique to the best of my knowledge[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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