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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№ 1019 x

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£200

Mining, Ayrshire, Kilmarnock, ‘Culm’, 1786, copper bracteate, 23mm, 1.21g (D & W 290/101; Brodie –; cf. DNW 62, 1362). Very fine and very rare £90-120

Culm is generally understood to be the waste material from coal screenings, although it is also a term used for fine pieces of anthracite