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

№ 900

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£410

18th Century Tokens, Angus, Brechin, Colin Smith and Patrick Wilson, Halfpenny, 1801, 10.26g/6h (DH 9); Dundee, William Croom, Halfpence (4), 10.65g/6h (DH 12), 10.00g/6h (DH 13), 9.37g/6h (DH 14), 8.47g/6h (DH 15), Wright’s ‘Infirmary’ Halfpenny, 1796, 11.07g/6h (DH 16), Alexander Molison, Wright’s Halfpenny, 1795, 10.97g/6h (DH 10), John Pilmer, Wright’s Halfpenny, 1797, 12.18g/6h (DH 17), Alexander Swap & Co, Wright’s Halfpence, 1797 (2), 11.15g/6h (DH 21), 10.90g/6h (DH 22a), Thomas Webster Jr, Wright’s Pennies, 1797 (2), 19.48g/6h (DH 5), edge plain, 19.07g/6h (DH 5, edge not listed), Wright’s Halfpence, 1797 (2), 12.12g/12h (DH 18), 10.16g/6h (DH 20), James Wright Jr, Farthing, 1797, 4.67g/6h (DH 42); Forfar, John Steele, Halfpence, 1797 (2), 11.53g/6h (DH 24), 11.24g/6h (DH 25); Montrose, James Bissett & Son, Halfpenny, 1796, 9.34g/6h (DH 28), Andrew Nicol, Halfpence, 1799 (2), 11.49g/6h (DH 33), 8.92g/6h (DH 35) [20]. DH 5 with plain edge about very fine and scuffed in field but extremely rare, DH 10 and 13 virtually as struck with full original colour, DH 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 25 and 42 very fine, others in varied state £150-200

Provenance: DH 5 with plain edge D. McDonald Collection, DNW Auction 63, 7 October 2004, lot 768 (part); DH 13 A.B. Pardoe Collection [from Coins of Canterbury October 1982].

DH 10 only illustrated