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

№ 625

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19 March 2009

Hammer Price:
£60

Mining, Cumberland, Greysouthen, Greysouthen Colliery, Birbeck & Fletcher, copper, ship, rev. horse-drawn cart laden with coal, coal token, 31mm, 11.55g/12h (Finlay 63; D & W 289/86). Small dig in obverse field, otherwise good fine, rare £60-80

Provenance: D.C. Pottinger Collection [from J. Whitmore May 1978).

Joseph Birkbeck and John Wilson Fletcher (1788-1857), fl. at Greysouthen 1823-32