18th Century British Trade Tokens

Yorkshire, Bedale, James Metcalf, Skidmore’s mule Halfpenny, from the same rev. die as previous, rev. conjoined busts of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette right, edge skidmore holborn london, 13.11g/8h (DH 11). Extremely fine and bronzed, very 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: J. Atkins Collection; W. Sykes Collection, Spink Auction 51, 16 April 1986, lot 235 (part); W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 1098 part)