18th Century British Trade Tokens

Leicestershire, Elmsthorpe, Richard Fowke, Halfpenny, 1800, ruins of church, rev. wheatsheaf, plough and harrow, edge plain, 16.01g/12h (DH 2). Rim nicks and minor surface marks, otherwise good very fine, very rare £600-800

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

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Provenance: with A.C. Eimer April 1984; W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 252 [from R. Gladdle 1986]; R.S. Brown Jr Collection, Part I, DNW Auction T7, 7 October 2009, lot 244 [from R. Gladdle November 1998].

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