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№ 1490

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9 June 2016

Hammer Price:
£260

Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Brass Sixpence, peel, rev. value in wreath, 24mm (Mackay 235; cf. R.J. Ford I, 252). About very fine, very rare
£100-150

Provenance: N.B. Todd Collection.

Although described in the references by Quarmby and Mackay as being connected with the Knockaloe internment camp at Peel on the Isle of Man, current informed thinking is that these pieces have no connection with the island at all and none have ever been found there