 1723 Wood's Hibernia Farthing. D:G:REX. N.6. Choice Uncirculated. One of the finest seen. 60.5 gns. A lovely example. The obverse and reverse are light brown in color. There is considerable original mint red showing in the protected areas on both sides, particularly around the obverse letters. The fields are a little rough in places but not really disturbingly so. There is a near perfect border of denticles around both sides. A pleasing example, and one of the nicest this cataloguer has seen. Nelson classed his N.6 as a pattern because its obverse legend is abbreviated as on the 1722 farthings, which he also called patterns. The cataloguer notes a silver N.6 in Bowers & Merena's August, 1989 sale, lot 1011, believed to have been unique.
Ex P.G. Allen, London on January 23, 1970.
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