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18th Century Tokens, Co Wicklow, Cronebane, Associated Irish Mine Co, Lutwyche’s imitation Halfpence (33), regular series (2), 1789, 8.70g/6h (DH 33), 1795, 8.52g/6h (DH 55); ‘Associated Irish Miners Arms’ series (31), undated (8), 9.53g/6h (DH 36), 8.82g/6h (DH 37), 9.58g/6h (DH 38), 8.58g/6h (DH 39), 10.09g/6h (DH 39a), 9.70g/6h (DH 39c), 9.57g/6h (DH 39e), 8.88g/5h (DH 42), 1789 (23), 9.45g/6h (DH 43), 9.50g/6h (DH 43a), 10.17g/6h (DH 43b), 9.66g/6h (DH 43c), 8.91g/6h (DH 43e),...
Hammer Price: £360
18th Century Tokens, Gloucestershire, Gloucester, Kempson’s City Penny, 1797, White Friars, 15.86g/6h (DH 8, bronzed); Kent, Godington, John Toke II, brass hop token, 1767, 5.62g/6h (DH 22); Middlesex, Skidmore’s Gates, Halfpence (2), Temple Bar, 11.54g/12h (DH 661), Whitehall Gate, 9.72g/12h (DH 663); T. Spence, mule Farthing, man hanging from gallows, rev. such is the reward of tyrants, 3.68g/6h (DH 1111) [5]. Second fine, others about extremely fine £150-200
18th Century Tokens, Middlesex [incorporating London], Skidmore’s Church series, Halfpence (6), Bloomsbury, St George’s, 13.19g/11h (DH 555); Bow Lane, St Mary’s, 9.75g/12h (DH 558); Bread Street, St Mildred’s, 11.63g/12h (DH 559); Cateaton Street, St Lawrence’s, 13.15g/12h (DH 561); Clerkenwell, St James’s, mule, rev. book, 12.57g/12h (DH 567); Coleman Street, St Stephens, 12.30g/12h (DH 571) [6]. Extremely fine and better, all with considerable original colour, DH 555 from the...
19th Century Tokens, Bath, Samuel Whitchurch and William Dore, Four Shillings, 1811, similar, 15.59g/12h (D 14; Young –). Extremely fine and attractively toned, rare £200-250
18th Century Tokens, Warwickshire, Coventry, Kempson’s Churches, Halfpence (3), all with bust of Handel, Grey Friars Steeple, 13.03g/6h (DH 260), Trinity, 13.07g/12h (DH 266a), White Friars, 13.47g/6h (DH 268); Kempson’s Buildings, Halfpence (2), both with bust of Handel, Barracks, 13.41g/6h (DH 285), Free School, 13.21g/5h (DH 298) [5]. DH 268 extremely fine with original colour, others very fine and better, all rare £90-120
18th Century Tokens, Ayrshire, Ayr, Col. William Fullarton, Restrike Pattern Halfpenny, 1799, by W.J. Taylor from dies by J. Milton, in silver, from the same dies as previous but repaired label of difference on impaled Scottish arms, edge plain, 8.31g/12h (Dykes, BNJ 2002, pp.155-8; Stainton 31D; Seaby ST 297; DH 5). Usual die flaw beneath bust, brilliant mint state, attractive deep tone £250-300
19th Century Tokens, Durham, Kibblesworth, Harrison, Cooke & Co, Shilling, 1811, ship at coal staith, reads bewick, rev. value, 3.95g/12h (D Northumberland 4). Virtually as struck, deep attractive tone £90-120
18th Century Tokens, Bristol, Hawkins Bird, Halfpenny, 1793, 9.03g/5h (DH 89); J. Chester, Halfpenny, 9.49g/6h (DH 90); Niblock & Hunter, Halfpence, 1795 (4), 9.20g/6h (DH 100), 8.48g/6h (DH 101), 8.95g/12h (DH 102), 7.49g/12h (DH 103); mule Halfpence by Lutwyche (4), 10.26g/6h (DH 91), 10.36g/12h (DH 92), 9.31g/6h (DH 93), 9.58g/6h (DH 98) [10]. DH 90, 92 and 100 extremely fine, others very fine and better, DH 89 with original colour £150-200
Hammer Price: £350
Theatre and Entertainment, London, St James’s, Théâtre Français, 1850, ivory, théâtre français and date, rev. named (R. Vyner Esq., Stall 46), 33mm, 4.81g (D & W –; MG –). Very fine and extremely rare; set in swivelling double gold surround mount with loop for suspension £300-350
18th Century Tokens, Middlesex [incorporating London], Chiswell Street, Robert Heslop, Halfpenny, 8.28g/5h (DH 336b); City Road, Thomas Hall, Halfpenny, 9.00g/6h (DH 319c); Cornhill, Richardson, Goodluck & Co, Halfpenny, 1795, 10.82g/6h (DH 468); Covent Garden, Thomas Dodd, Halfpenny, 7.83g/6h (DH 300); Coventry Street, J. Henderson, Halfpenny, 1795, 8.92g/6h (DH 293); St Martin’s Lane, William Williams, Halfpenny, 1795, 9.64g/6h (DH 915); Strand, J. and S. Kelly, Halfpenny, 9.10g/6h (DH...
Hammer Price: £340
18th Century Tokens, Middlesex [incorporating London], Thomas Spence, mule Halfpence (4), ass with paniers, revs. Britannia, 12.84g/5h (DH 717), Free-Born Englishman, 10.21g/6h (DH 718), lion and cock, 11.85g/6h (DH 720), turnstile, 9.89g/6h (DH 723) [4]. Extremely fine, all attractively patinated £200-250
18th Century Tokens, Angus, Dundee, William Croom, Boulton’s Halfpence (2), 10.19g/6h, 9.89g/6h (both DH 13), Wright’s ‘Infirmary’ Halfpence, 1796 (2), 11.29g/6h, 11.14g/6h (both DH 16), J.M. & Co, Farthing, 3.16g/12h (DH 39), Alexander Molison, Wright’s Halfpence, 1795 (2), 11.16g/6h, 11.10g/6h (both DH 10), John Pilmer, Wright’s Halfpenny, 1797, 11.90g/6h (DH 17), Alexander Swap & Co, Wright’s Halfpenny, 1797, 11.15g/6h (DH 21), Thomas Webster Jr, Wright’s Penny, 1797,...
18th Century Tokens, Co Offaly (King’s County), Charleville, Charles Bury, Thirteen Pence, 1802, from the same dies as previous, but upper portion of a in tuesday filled-in, edge plain, 22.96g/12h (DH 2 [illustrated as DH 1]). Two small stains on obverse, otherwise better than extremely fine and bronzed £120-150
Hammer Price: £330
Unofficial Farthings, Kent, Brompton, Alfred Light, 1851 (UFS 1260; Allen 105); Somerset, Winford, Prince of Waterloo, E.J. Winstone, brass Twopence by S.A. Daniell, 24mm (cf. SPHT 349; cf. Greenaway 1170); together with other miscellaneous tokens, checks, etc (40), 17th-20th centuries, from Bristol, Chelsea, Sheffield, Reading, Bradford, Dover, Liverpool, etc [42]. Many very fine £60-80
19th Century Tokens, Bath, Samuel Whitchurch and William Dore, Four Shillings, 1811, value around wreath, rev. legend, 14.97g/12h (D 15; Young 1229). Obverse legend partly weak, otherwise very fine and very rare £200-250
18th Century Tokens, Warwickshire, Birmingham, Birmingham Mining & Copper Co, imitation Halfpenny, 1793, 9.12g/6h (DH 116); Benjamin Jacob, Penny, 1798, 18.58g/6h (DH 31); Workhouse, Alston’s Halfpenny, 1796, 8.47g/12h (DH 63, coated with similor); Kempson’s Buildings, Halfpence (3), Navigation Office, 12.85g/12h (DH 210), New Brassworks, 13.99g/12h (DH 203), Soho Manufactory, 11.78g/6h (DH 212); 50th Birthday of Joseph Priestley, 1783, a white metal medal by J.G. Hancock, 13.63g/12h (DH...
18th Century Tokens, Co Wicklow, Cronebane, Associated Irish Mine Co, Lutwyche’s imitation Halfpence (17), regular series, 1793, 8.65g/6h (DH 35), ‘Associated Irish Miners Arms’ series (16), undated (2), 9.09g/6h (DH 39b), 7.98g/6h (DH 40), 1789 (14), 9.95g/6h (DH 43), 9.57g/6h (DH 43a), 10.31g/6h, 10.17g/6h, 9.88g/6h (all DH 43b), 10.04g/6h, 10.01g/6h, 9.87g/6h (all DH 43c), 9.55g/6h (DH 43d), 9.93g/6h, 9.88g/6h, 9.46g/6h (all DH 44a), 8.55g/6h (DH 51), 9.31g/6h (DH 51c); Lutwyche’s...
Hammer Price: £320
Miscellaneous, Tokens, checks, counters, spielmarken, etc (109, two in silver) [109]. Varied state £40-50
Parks and Gardens, London, Marylebone, Marylebone Gardens, 1766, uniface brass, marybone admit two and date within border of palm leaves, French horns above and book below, engraved (No. 172), 38 x 32mm, 10.15g (D & W 78/235; MG 657). Some surface marks and a spot by e of marybone, otherwise very fine and very rare £150-200
17th Century Tokens, London (Metropolitan Middlesex), Bow Street, H.B.S., the cros shvfles, Farthing, 1653, 1.10g/6h (BW. 392); Butcher Row, Mathew Dune, Halfpenny, 1.00g/12h (BW. 452); East Smithfield, W.A.T., the tallo chanler, Farthing, 0.79g/6h (BW. 950); Golden Lane, John Maxwell, Farthing, 0.68g/12h (BW. 1168); Goodmans Yard, ‘Honest Ned’ Spencer, Halfpenny, 1668, 1.17g/12h (BW. 1183); Long Acre, Robert Abbits, Farthing, 1659, 0.77g/6h (BW. 1775); New Palace Yard, Edward Write,...
18th Century Tokens, Warwickshire, Birmingham, George Hollington Barker, Halfpenny, 1797, family arms, crest of an armed warrior above, ghb cypher below, rev. figure of Justice in sunken oval divides date in Roman numerals, facta aquato examine pendit, edge plain, 14.77g/12h (DH 67a). Extremely fine and attractively patinated, extremely rare £250-350
18th Century Tokens, Warwickshire, Coventry, Kempson’s Churches, Halfpence (4), Cathedral, 13.65g/6h (DH 257), Grey Friars Steeple, 13.59g/6h (DH 259), St John’s, 12.85g/6h (DH 262), Trinity, 15.52g/6h (DH 265); Kempson’s Gates, Halfpence (6), Cook Street, 13.10g/6h (DH 269), Grey Friars, 13.78g/6h (DH 271), Mill Lane, 13.62g/6h (DH 274), Spon, 14.50g/6h (DH 277), White Friars (2), 13.39g/6h (DH 279), 13.54g/6h (DH 280) [10]. DH 269 extremely fine with considerable original colour, DH...
Communion Tokens, A collection of iron stock dies (13) and moulds (6), all different, several of the dies stamped g lingard run [19]. Fine and better for this material, but the moulds uncleaned £100-200
Hammer Price: £310
Miscellaneous, Scotland, 18th century tokens (73), Pennies (2), Halfpence (60), Farthings (11) [73]. Varied state £200-300
18th Century Tokens, Devon, Plymouth, Shepheard, Dove, Hammett & Co, Halfpence, 1796 (2), 9.71g/6h, 9.49g/6h (both DH 6); Dorset, Poole, James Bayly, Halfpenny, 1795, 9.50g/12h (DH 6); Gloucestershire, Brimscombe Port, Thames and Severn Canal Co, Halfpence, 1795 (2), 10.27g/12h, 9.97g/6h (both DH 60); Gloucester, Gloucester & Berkeley Canal Co, Halfpence, 1797 (2), 9.86g/6h, 9.61g/6h (both DH 63); Newent, John Morse, Halfpence, 1796 (3), 10.76g/12h (DH 64), 10.21g/9h, 7.84g/6h (both DH 65);...
Northampton, Borough, [William] S[elby and Richard] R[ands], Farthing [1653], 1.03g/6h (N 3399; W 66; BW. 74), J[ohn] S[tevens], Farthing [1657], 1.40g/12h (N 3401 obv., different rev.; W 70, and pl.ii, 46, same dies; BW. 75), J[ohn] T[wigden], Farthing, 1660, 1.07g/6h (N 3403; W 73; BW. 84); Richard Alcout, Halfpenny, 1667, 1.64g/12h (N 3412; W 74; BW. 65); Edward Cooper, Farthing, 1654, 0.93g/6h (N 3404; W 75; BW. 67); Thomas Cooper, Farthings (2), 1652, 1.16g/6h (N 3405; W 76; BW....
18th Century Tokens, Middlesex [incorporating London], Skidmore’s Church series, Halfpence (8), Abchurch Lane, St Mary’s, 10.33g/12h (DH 538a); Aldermanbury, St Mary’s, 12.52g/12h (DH 539c); Aldersgate, St Ann’s, 14.52g/11h (DH 540), St Botolph’s, 11.34g/11h (DH 541); Basinghall Street, St Michael’s (2), 13.55g/12h (DH 545), 13.53g/12h (DH 545a); Billingsgate, St Mary-at-Hill, 11.37g/12h (DH 548a); Bishopsgate, Great St Helen’s, 11.61g/11h (DH 552) [8]. DH 541 brilliant mint...
19th Century Tokens, Bath, Charles Culverhouse, Isaac Orchard and James Phipps, Four Shillings, arms and supporters, rev. legend, 15.59g/12h (D 1; Young 1222). About extremely fine, light grey tone, rare £150-200
18th Century Tokens, Middlesex [incorporating London], Thomas Spence, mule Farthings (4), Even Fellows, revs. Britannia, 3.54g/6h (DH 1092), man on bull with ass’s head, 3.92g/6h (DH 1093), conjoined heads of man and ass, 3.62g/6h (DH 1094a), slave, 4.09g/6h (DH 1097) [4]. Extremely fine with original colour, particularly DH 1092 and 1097, all rare £150-200
17th Century Tokens, Devon, Okehampton, Ann Trewen, Farthing, 166[–], 0.99g/12h (N –; D –). Green patina, fair to fine, extremely rare and believed unpublished £90-120
Hammer Price: £300
18th Century Tokens, Middlesex [incorporating London], Thomas Spence, mule Halfpence (3), t spence bookseller, etc, revs. Spaniard, 12.42g/6h (DH 700b), Free-Born Englishman, 12.63g/12h (DH 709), sailor, 11.88g/6h (DH 713) [3]. Extremely fine, first patinated, others with a little original colour £150-200
18th Century Tokens, Middlesex [incorporating London], Thomas Spence, mule Halfpence (2), two men dancing around fire, rev. Indian, 12.14g/6h (DH 823); stag and tree, rev. snail on river-bank, 10.33g/6h (DH 862) [2]. Extremely fine, both with much original colour, an attractive pair £140-180
Theatre and Entertainment, London, Covent Garden, Theatre Royal, 1755, brass, by J. Kirk, bust of George II left, theatre royal around, rev. covent garden second gallery and date, 30mm, 9.89g/12h (D & W 12/112; MG –; Noble II, 638). Very fine and very rare; set in double gold surround mount with loop for suspension £300-350
Theatre and Entertainment, London, Haymarket, Her Majesty’s Theatre, 1845, octagonal ivory, her majestys theatre and date, rev. named (Hy. Littledale Esqre, Stall 46), 35mm, 6.96g (D & W –; MG 129). Obverse about very fine, reverse better, extremely rare; set in double gold surround mount with loop for suspension £300-350
Theatre and Entertainment, London, Tottenham Court Road, Prince of Wales Theatre, uniface silver-gilt or brass, prince of wales theatre, centre stamped No. 30, back scratched ‘1830’, 32mm, 10.20g (D & W –; MG –). Good very fine and extremely rare; set in double gold surround mount with loop for suspension £300-350
Transport, London, King’s Cross, London & North Eastern Railway, oval silver, arms, rev. tablet, named (59, K. Kerr), 32 x 25mm; Liverpool Street, The Great Eastern Railway, Police Department, copper (4), griffin’s wing, revs. stamped No. 6, 8, 35 and 55, all 31mm (cf. D & W 327/26); London Passenger Transport Board, Railways, octagonal silver (2), griffin, revs. named (K. Kerr, 119; G.F. Thurston, 129), both 29mm [7]. Last two fine, others very fine; silver pieces with clips and rings...
18th Century Tokens, Middlesex [incorporating London], Thomas Spence, mule Halfpence (4), bust left, revs. noted advocates, etc, 10.73g/6h (DH 677), Britannia, 11.78g/6h (DH 678a), lion and cock, 10.33g/6h (DH 685a); man in prison gnawing bone, rev. three armed citizens, 8.71g/6h (DH 851) [4]. About extremely fine and better £150-200
18th Century Tokens, Warwickshire, Coventry, Kempson’s Churches, Halfpence (3), Grey Friars Steeple, 13.55g/6h (DH 259), St John’s, 14.62g/6h (DH 262), Trinity, 13.97g/6h (DH 265); Kempson’s Gates, Halfpence (4), Cook Street, 13.60g/6h (DH 269), Spon, 14.47g/6h (DH 277), White Friars (2), 13.41g/6h, 13.30g/6h (both DH 279); Kempson’s Buildings, Halfpence (3), Bablake Hospital, 13.10g/6h (DH 282a), Barracks, 13.40g/6h (DH 284), Ford’s Hospital, 13.31g/6h (DH 293a) [10]. About...
18th Century Tokens, Anglesey, Amlwch, Parys Mine Co, Halfpence, 1788 (8), 14.09g/12h (DH 289), 14.36g/12h (DH 303), 13.99g/12h (DH 312), 14.32g/12h (DH 315), 14.25g/12h (DH 321), 14.11g/12h (DH 340), 14.00g/12h (DH 341), 14.18g/12h (DH 350) [8]. DH 289 extremely fine with almost full original colour, DH 340, 341 and 350 about extremely fine and better with some original colour, others very fine £120-150
Dalton, R., and Hamer, S.H., The Provincial Token-Coinage of the 18th Century [London, 1910-17], 3 vols, 567pp, illustrations in text [3]. Original red cloth, spine gilt; a very fine and handsome original set, rare £200-250
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