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

№ 846

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£270

18th Century Tokens, Warwickshire, Birmingham, Charles Pye, Halfpenny, 1797, cp cypher, rev. Moneta seated right holding cornucopia of coins, bee-hive and bees at right, edge plain, 17.26g/12h (DH 223). Small spot adjacent to Moneta’s face, otherwise extremely fine and very rare £180-220

Provenance: M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part II, Spink Auction 58, 30 April 1987, lot 288; bt M.J. Dickinson.

36 struck