Auction Catalogue

19 March 2009

Starting at 10:30 AM

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British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 310

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19 March 2009

Hammer Price:
£580

17th Century Tokens, Ireland, Co Fermanagh, Lisnaskea, John Nisbit, Penny, 1.34g/10h (Sharman, TCSB 9, p.54, this piece; N –; Macalister –; BW. –). Good fine with even brown patina, of the highest rarity; no other tokens known from this locality £400-500

The full reading is: mm. five-point mullet on obv. only, · iohn · nisbit ·, arms of the Nisbit family, a chevron between three boar’s heads left, rev. · of · lisneske ·, · d · above · i ·, flanked by five-point mullet each side. Sold with a handwritten copy of the original article on the token by Robert Sharman, published in March 2008