Details
LOT 4051
Great Britain. Hanover, Victoria AR Threehalfpence. Dated 1839. Royal mint.
Designs by William Wyon and Jean Baptiste Merlen. VICTORIA D: G: BRITANNIAR: REGINA F: D:, diademed head to left / Crowned denomination above date; all within oak wreath. Bull 3464; ESC 2255; SCBC 3915. Good Fine.(0.70gr, 12mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
Footnotes
The standard weight of this coin was 1/44 troy ounce or 10.9 grains. Struck for colonial use in Ceylon, where it was worth 4 stivers (1 fanam) and the West Indies (Jamaica, British Guiana and Trinidad) where it was equivalent to 1/4 real.
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