Auction Catalogue

5 October 2011

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18th Century British Trade Tokens

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 35

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5 October 2011

Hammer Price:
£240

Buckinghamshire, Slough, William Till, Halfpenny, 1794, in light bronze or brass, from the same dies as previous, edge plain, 8.26g/12h (DH 24; Preston-Morley –). Virtually as struck with full original colour, of the highest rarity; believed the only known specimen in this metal and not recorded in the principal reference £250-350

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

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Provenance: Fawcett/Litman Collection; D.L. Spence Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 63, 7 October 2004, lot 1162