British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

18th Century Tokens, Warwickshire, Birmingham, Workhouse, Shilling, 1799, in copper, beehive and bees, rev. value and date, 3.33g/6h (DH 5). Good fine and patinated, very rare £80-100

Provenance: P.C. Cruttwell Collection, Spink Auction 63, 28-9 March 1988, lot 631 (part) [from Baldwin December 1986).

A very elusive token; the only others believed auctioned in recent years were those in the Gerson (lot 259), Vorley (Glendining 3 xi 1993, lot 68), Bell (lot 139) and Noble (lot 920) Collections