Excerpt from The Numismatic Chronicle, and Journal of the Numismatic Society, Vol. 17

Dear Sir,

My present communication is one composed of good fortune and misfortune! It is my good fortune to be able to communicate a notice of a coin, hitherto unknown to numismatists as existing, save and except in the pages of a Parliamentary Statute, preserved in the Rolls Office. It is my misfortune, only to be able to afford a fragment of that coin, as it has been evidently cut, and divided into two equal portions, as previous reigns and centuries shew us was the prevailing custom, for the purpose of a smaller circulation as a halfpenny.

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