British Coins from the Collection of Ian Sawden

George III (1760-1820), Pre-1816 issues, A 1799 Pattern Halfpenny in gold: Restrike Pattern Halfpenny, 1799, by W.J. Taylor after C.H. Küchler, in gold, laureate bust right, k · on truncation, rev. Britannia seated left, thin raised rim around shield, ship without gunports, date figures re-cut, edge plain, 20.35g/12h (BMC – [dies of R 79]; WR –; Selig –). Trifling marks in fields, otherwise brilliant and virtually as struck, of the highest rarity £15,000-£20,000 --- Provenance: J.G. Murdoch Collection, Part III, 15-19 March 1904, lot 236 (part); E. Roberts Collection, Plymouth Auction Rooms (Plymouth), 18 April 2008, lot 20. Although C.W. Peck did not record any gold restrike halfpence of 1799, he would have been aware of the descriptions of the pieces in Murdoch collection (lots 234-6), doubtless the source for his footnote 2, BMC p.342