Auction Catalogue

5 October 2011

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18th Century British Trade Tokens

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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№ 672 x

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5 October 2011

Hammer Price:
£130

Somerset, Bath, Payne & Turner, Halfpence (4), silver-smiths edge, 9.57g/6h (DH 65; Young 1184), i promise edge, 10.97g/6h (DH 65a; Young 1185, this piece), edge plain, 11.21g/5h (DH 65b; Young 1185, this piece), payable in anglesey london or liverpool edge, 11.87g/6h (DH 65, edge unlisted; Young 1185, this piece); James Wood, Kempson’s Halfpence (2), revs. arms of Bath, willey snedshill edge, 11.17g/6h (DH 66a; Young 1186), view of a street, edge grained, 10.15g/12h (DH 67b; Young 1186) [6]. DH 65b extremely fine with considerable original colour, others generally fine to very fine but DH 65 cleaned, mostly very rare £100-150

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

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Provenance: DH 65 bt J.A. Bobbe March 1997; DH 65a, *65b and 65 unlisted edge D. Young Collection, Baldwin Auction 6, 11 October 1995, lot 1185 [65a from Spink July 1979, 65b from Baldwin March 1982, unlisted edge bt A. Judd April 1993]; W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 808; DH 66a bt P. Flanagan July 1983; DH 67b bt R. Gladdle April 1994