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

Political and Social series: Tokens, Hancock and Jorden’s ‘End of Pain’ Halfpence (3), all with borders of hands, man hanging from gibbet, revs. Pandora’s breeches, snake below with head representative of Joseph Priestley (2), edge plain, 6.54g/12h (DH 829a), willey snedshill bersham bradley edge, 10.96g/6h (DH 829b), may the knave, etc, edge plain, 11.02g/12h (DH 830a) [3]. First two with usual die crack on reverse, DH 829a with dark patina and lightly lacquered, others very fine and better, DH 829b extremely rare £150-200

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

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Provenance: DH 829a bt M.Z. Gerson January 1981; *DH 829b bt J. Spingarn November 1997 [from Baldwin]; DH 830a bt J.A. Bobbe July 1996