18th Century British Trade Tokens

Middlesex [City of London], Uncertain locality, Peter Anderson, Jorden’s Halfpenny, 1795, City arms, domine dirige nos above shield, rev. ornate pa cypher, edge payable at the house of peter anderson london, 14.25g/6h (DH 249). Excess cud of metal on obverse rim between 2 and 3 o’clock, otherwise virtually as struck with dark patina, extremely rare; very few specimens known
£500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, 18th Century Tokens from the Dr Allen Bennett Collection.

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Provenance: R.S. Brown Jr Collection, Part II, DNW Auction T8, 6 October 2010, lot 358 [from J.A. Bobbe June 1996].

8 struck before the obverse die broke (Dykes, BNJ 2001, p.129)