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

Thomas Spence series, Mule Halfpence (8), legend beneath radiation, revs. Bridewell boy, spence edge, 11.75g/6h (DH 708), Free-born Englishman, 12.42g/12h (DH 709), Highlander, 10.34g/6h (DH 710), Indian, spence edge, 11.98g/6h (DH 711), men under tree, 10.39g/7h (DH 712); sailor, 11.70g/6h (DH 713), snail on river-bank, edge plain, 10.26g/7h (DH 714b), boys at turnstile, 10.62g/12h (DH 715) [8]. DH 708 weakly struck and off-centre with some surface scratches, others about extremely fine, DH 713 and 715 better, DH 710 with collectors’ number ‘1270’ in reverse field £300-350

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

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Provenance: DH 708 bt P. Flanagan March 1984; DH 709 Davissons Mailbid Sale 6, 29 February 1996 (457); DH 710 D.T. Batty Collection, bt J.A. Bobbe February 1982; DH 711 bt J. Spingarn February 1997; DH 712 SCMB June 1964, P.C. Deane Collection, W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty, Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 592 (part), bt A. Davisson September 1998; *DH 713 bt J. Bobbe June 2001; DH 714b bt R. Gladdle June 1991; DH 715 bt P. Flanagan August 1980