1722 Wood's Hibernia Halfpenny. Harp Left. N.3. Choice Uncirculated. 109.2 gns. Light golden brown in color on both sides with considerable faded mint red around the peripheries on each. Centers somewhat soft, a trifle flawed in places, the obverse die severely broken in the field below George's bust with a pronounced linear cud formed from the rim below its point ending in a spidery break below 'O' in GEORGIUS.
Ex Tom Elder's sale of February 5, 1926, lot 1749; F.C.C. Boyd Estate.
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