Auction Catalogue

8 November 2007

Starting at 1:30 PM

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British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 186

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8 November 2007

Hammer Price:
£680

18th Century Tokens, Middlesex [incorporating London], Hackney, David Rebello, Milton’s Halfpenny, 1795, in silver, church, rev. dar cypher, aplustre and rudder, edge plain, 9.03g/12h (DH 309; Stainton 33). Light hairlines in obverse field, otherwise brilliant and virtually as struck, attractively toned, extremely rare (£600-800)

10 struck. David Alves Rebello (†1796), Jewish merchant, antiquarian and numismatist, lived at Mare street, Hackney