18th Century British Trade Tokens

Buckinghamshire, Slough, John Peckham, Proof Halfpenny, 1795, in silver, arms of the Peckham family, rev. phoenix, edge plain, 13.45g/12h (DH 28; Preston-Morley 1053, this piece). Brilliant mint state, light grey tone, extremely rare
£500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection.

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Provenance: SNC May 1969 (11, recté DH 28); SCMB September 1972; Glendining Auction, 19 June 1974, lot 489 (part); P.J. Preston-Morley Collection, DNW Auction 52, 28-9 November 2001, lot 1053; R.S. Brown Jr Collection, Part I, DNW Auction T7, 7 October 2009, lot 38.

Exhibition: British Numismatic Society, 22 April 1980