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

№ 491

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19 March 2009

Hammer Price:
£750

18th Century Tokens, Co Offaly (King’s County), Charleville, Charles Bury, Proof Thirteen Pence, 1802, in gilt-copper, arms and supporters, rev. payable at tullamoore, etc, upper portion of a in tuesday clear, edge plain, 21.52g/6h (DH 1 [illustrated as DH 2]; cf. DNW 61, 1193). Brilliant and practically as struck, most attractive and very rare
£300-400

The same rev. die was used to strike DH 1 and 2; the ordering as illustrated in DH is confused and the illustrations therein given for DH 1 and 2 should be reversed