Auction Catalogue

6 October 2010

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

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 437 x

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£550

Thomas Spence series, Mule Halfpence (6), from the same obv. die as previous, revs. lion and cock, spence edge, 12.79g/6h (DH 766), conjoined heads of man and ass, spence edge, 12.68g/6h (DH 767), Cain slaying Abel, spence edge, 12.82g/6h (DH 768), shepherd (3), spence edge, 12.56g/6h (DH 769), edge engrailed, 9.30g/6h (DH 769a), edge plain, 12.95g/6h (DH 769c) [6]. DH 766 about very fine, DH 769 good very fine, others extremely fine, DH 769a with original colour, this and DH 769c very rare £350-400

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

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Provenance: DH 766 bt P. Flanagan July 1983; DH 767 W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty, Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 604 (part) [from Baldwin 1978]; DH 768 bt A. Davisson May 1992; DH 769 bt M.Z. Gerson December 1981; DH *769a and 769c F.W. Lincoln ‘No. 1’ Collection, F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Lincoln March 1934], bt A. Davisson April 1998