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

№ 666 x

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5 October 2011

Hammer Price:
£230

Somerset, Bath, William Gye, Lutwyche’s mule Halfpenny, arms of Bath, rev. arms of Bath with supporters, edge payable by t foster lamberhurst, 9.80g/12h (DH 56; Young 1176, this piece). Obverse edge nicks at 8 o’clock and reverse a trifle off-centre, otherwise extremely fine and lightly patinated, extremely rare £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection.

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Provenance: D. Young Collection, Baldwin Auction 6, 11 October 1995, lot 1176 [from M.J. Dickinson November 1990]; W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 806