Obv: Sailor seizing a landsman, BRITISH * LIBERTY * DISPLAYED * around, 1795 in exergue. Rev: Two men boxing, FASHIONABLE . AMUSEMENT . around, 1790 in exergue. Edge: SPENCE X DEALER X IN X COINS X LONDON X.
Good Extremely Fine and Choice brown. Scarce. Spence mule using the Mendoza reverse. Ex. Groll.
An interesting and highly sought mule variety of Spence’s dies. Two men fighting on both sides! The reverse is from the Mendoza halfpenny (D&H 785).