Auction Catalogue

7 October 2009

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 406

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7 October 2009

Hammer Price:
£230

18th Century Tokens, Middlesex [incorporating London], Thomas Spence series, mule Halfpence (3), bust left, rev. three armed citizens, 11.29g/8h (DH 681d); sailor seizing landsman, rev. lion and cock, 10.56g/7h (DH 733); man in prison gnawing bone, rev. lion and cock, 9.86g/5h (DH 852) [3]. Extremely fine, first patinated, others with original colour, particularly the last £200-250

Provenance: DH 681d W. Waite-Sanderson Collection, Glendining Auction, 16-17 November 1944, lot 138 (part) [acquired October 1928].

DH 852 only illustrated