18th Century British Trade Tokens

Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Spence’s mule Halfpence (2), bust of John Horne Tooke right, revs. Sessions House, Old Bailey, edges plain, in copper, 14.28g/6h, in white metal, 9.28g/12h (both DH 878; BHM 380) [2]. Copper extremely fine with some original colour, white metal nearly so, rare £120-150

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 II, DNW Auction 67A, 29 September 2005, lot 1518, additionally: first F.W. Lincoln Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 February 1936, lot 280 (part).

Second only illustrated