Pattern Coin

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Queen Anne 1713 Pattern Farthing, Peck 732 (Small Flan)

History

A prototype which, for one reason or another, never became a circulation coin. Perhaps the design was unacceptable. Sometimes a new metal is experimented with and rejected.




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