British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books including the David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Books

Central London, High Holborn, Christopher Ibberson, mule Halfpenny, from the same obv. die as previous, rev. cypher rw on a shield hanging from a tree, edge plain, 10.84g/6h (DH 340). Good fine and patinated, extremely rare £100-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection.

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Provenance: Bt J.A. Bobbe October 1996.

A concoction presumably made at the Soho mint, utilising the rev. die of the Enniscorthy halfpence of Robert Woodcock (DH Wexford 1-4), from an issue shipped from Soho in February 1800/1 (Doty, CTCJ June 2000, p.77). At one time considered rarer than DH 339, more specimens of DH 340 have appeared on the market in recent years