Auction Catalogue

5 October 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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18th Century British Trade Tokens

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 925 x

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5 October 2011

Hammer Price:
£210

Yorkshire, Beverley, J. Green, Halfpenny, 1797, pawnbroker’s balls, rev. money lent on plate wearing apparel &c, etc, edge plain, 9.57g/12h (DH 13). No traces of overstriking, metal fault on obverse at 6 o’clock, otherwise extremely fine with original colour, the reverse attractive, rare £200-250

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

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Provenance: W. Waite-Sanderson Collection, Glendining Auction, 16-17 November 1944, lot 270 (part); W. Anderson Collection, Davissons Mailbid Sale 13, 25 April 2000 (836) [from Baldwin]