Auction Catalogue

6 October 2010

Starting at 10:00 AM

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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

№ 447 x

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£650

Thomas Spence series, Mule Halfpence (7), from the same obv. die as previous, revs. heads of William Pitt and Charles Fox conjoined (2), spence x edge, 10.67g/2h (DH 795), edge plain, 11.84g/6h (DH 795b), bust of John Horne Tooke (3), spence edge, 10.98g/6h (DH 796), edge grained, 9.80g/6h (DH 796a), edge engrailed, 9.25g/11h (DH 796b), Tree of Liberty (2), edge grained, 9.07g/6h (DH 797), edge plain, 12.22g/5h (DH 797a) [7]. DH 795 very fine, DH 795b and 797a about extremely fine, latter re-toned, others extremely fine or better, DH 796 with much original colour, DH 796a with flaw across Tooke’s face, this, DH 796b and 797 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 795 bt P. Flanagan August 1984; DH 795b bt J.A. Bobbe January 1994; DH *796 and 796b bt W. Anderson January 1996; DH 796a F.W. Lincoln ‘No. 1’ Collection, F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Lincoln March 1934], W. Anderson Collection, Davissons Mailbid Sale 13, 25 April 2000 (675); DH 797 bt F. Seymour September 1994; DH 797a bt J.A. Bobbe March 1987