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Middlesex [Greater Metropolitan area], Hackney, David Rebello, Skidmore’s mule Penny, 1795, dar cypher, rev. bust of William III right,, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 27.58g/6h (DH 22). Extremely fine, obverse with almost full original colour, reverse lightly patinated and with a spot below bust, very rare £400-500
Hammer Price: £360
Middlesex [Greater Metropolitan area], Isleworth, Skidmore’s Clerkenwell series, Penny, All Saints Church, rev. fictitious arms, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 24.74g/12h (DH 157). Virtually as struck with full original colour £150-200
Hammer Price: £160
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Denton’s ‘Swan’ Penny, 1797, swan with partly expanded wings swimming left, rev. arms of the county of Middlesex, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 24.30g/6h (DH 174; Bell, ST p.127, this piece). Virtually as struck with attractive chocolate patina, very rare £600-800
Hammer Price: £1,250
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Kempson’s London Buildings, Pennies (5), type 1 with rev. die london promissory penny token (4), obvs. Guildhall, 25.38g/12h (DH 42), Mansion House, 21.54g/6h (DH 43), Somerset House (2), 26.14g/6h (DH 44). 25.50g/6h (DH 44a); type 2 with rev. die london penny token, obv. St James’s Palace, 22.06g/6h (DH 58) [5]. First two practically as struck with full original colour, last very fine, others extremely fine with much original colour, edge...
Hammer Price: £170
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Skidmore’s Churches, Halfpence (2), Friday Street, St Matthew’s, 11.00g/12h (DH 585), Holborn, St Andrew’s, 12.64g/12h (DH 595); Skidmore’s Gates, Halfpenny, Bridge Gate, 11.66g/1h (DH 651); metropolitan middlesex, Willesden, Skidmore’s Churches, Halfpenny, Willesden, 13.38g/5h (DH 643) [4]. Second and last about extremely fine, last very rare, others extremely fine and better, first with almost full original colour £80-100
Hammer Price: £90
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Spence’s mule Halfpence (2), pig, rev. Britannia, 11.78g/6h (DH 843a), Tree of Liberty, rev. caduceus, 12.36g/6h (DH 884); Spence’s mule Farthing, bust left, rev. pig, 4.06g/6h (DH 1081) [3]. Second perhaps brass and once plated, fine, others extremely fine with original colour but first with collectors’ number ‘1291’ inked on reverse £80-100
Hammer Price: £55
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Spence’s mule Halfpence (2), bust of John Horne Tooke right, revs. Sessions House, Old Bailey, edges plain, in copper, 14.28g/6h, in white metal, 9.28g/12h (both DH 878; BHM 380) [2]. Copper extremely fine with some original colour, white metal nearly so, rare £120-150
Hammer Price: £75
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Spence’s mule Farthing, cat seated left, rev. hand holding open book, pig’s meat, 3.46g/6h (DH 1091). From clashed dies with ghosting of book on obverse, some legend weak, otherwise extremely fine with a hint of original colour, rare £200-250
Hammer Price: £250
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Spence’s mule Farthing, in white metal, from the same dies as previous, edge plain, thick flan, 4.61g/11h (DH 1091, not listed in this metal). About extremely fine and of the highest rarity £300-400
Hammer Price: £460
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Thomas Spence, Halfpenny, countermarked partnership in land/the land is ours you rogues, 7.50g/12h (on DH Middlesex 676); George III, Penny, 1797, obv. countermarked no landlords you fools spence’s plan you rogues, 26.98g; Halfpence (5), countermarked liberty/liberty, 6.49g (on George III imitation Halfpenny), partnership in land/or for ever starvation, 7.44g, spence’s plan full bellies/& every blessing, 7.03g, spence’s plan full bellies/and...
Hammer Price: £850
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Westwood’s Collectors’ Halfpenny, 1796, connoisseur smoking pipe, seated at table spread with medals, elderly figure placing a fool’s cap on his head, rev. ass and mule standing facing, be assured friend mule, etc, edge any sum given for scarce original impressions, 10.84g/6h (DH 298). Usual die flaw on reverse, obverse extremely fine, reverse nearly so but some surface defects in field, rare £400-500
Hammer Price: £620
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Westwood’s Collectors’ Halfpenny, 1796, from the same obv. die as previous, rev. two boys racing on asses to right, edge any sum given for scarce original impressions, 11.41g/12h (DH 299). Flaw commencing under date, extremely fine and patinated, rare £400-500
Hammer Price: £750
Middlesex [Medallic and other series], Kempson’s Admiral Gardner Election token, 1796, Gardner in naval uniform standing in front of a cannon, rev. obelisk at left, fox standing on three blocks, no majesty but that of the people, etc, 21.80g/6h (DH 226; BHM 411). Extremely fine with virtually full original colour £100-150
Middlesex [Medallic and other series], Kempson’s Thomas Erskine Halfpenny, 7.44g/6h (DH 1010); Uncertain manufacturers, Thomas Hardy Halfpenny, 1794, 7.79g/12h, John Horne Tooke, Halfpence, 1794 (2), 9.51g/12h (DH 1044a), 8.34g/6h (DH 1045a), ‘Pro Bono Publico’ Farthing, 2.38g/6h (DH 1169) [5]. Last fine, others very fine and better £35-45
Hammer Price: £20
Middlesex [Medallic and other series], Kempson’s Erskine and Gibbs Proof Halfpenny, 1794, in silver, two barristers standing holding label inscribed bill of rights, magna charta above, rev. legend in 9 lines, edge engrailed, 10.26g/12h (DH 1011). Extremely fine and richly toned £250-300
£250–£300
Middlesex [Medallic and other series], Skidmore’s Penny for the Centenary of the Revolution [using the rev. die by C. James], bust of William III right without border, rev. Britannia seated left, edge plain, 23.36g/6h (DH 198; Woolf 75:4; BHM 284; D & W 173/559). Minor edge nicks, good fine, very rare £90-120
Hammer Price: £60
Middlesex [Medallic and other series], Skidmore’s Penny for the Centenary of the Revolution, bust of William III within border, rev. lion rampant supporting arms, edge plain, 23.00g/6h (DH 199; Woolf 75:5; BHM 285; D & W 173/560). Extremely fine with much original colour £120-150
Hammer Price: £150
Middlesex [Medallic and other series], Thomas Paine, 1793, a white metal medal, unsigned [possibly by W. Mainwaring], bust right, rev. man standing, regarding a mountain at right, on which crouches a mouse, two other figures at left, 33mm, 11.92g/12h (DH 208; BHM 365; E 851). Minor surface marks and tin pest on rims, otherwise about very fine, rare £250-300
Hammer Price: £240
Middlesex [Medallic and other series], Thomas Paine, 1793, a white metal medal, unsigned, man hanging from tree, a tree is known by its fruit…, i die for this damn'd book in speech bubble, rev. may the tree of liberty exist to bear tommy's last friend, 32mm, 10.54g/12h (DH 209; BHM 366). An early strike without the obverse die flaws, trifling surface marks, otherwise extremely fine and retaining much original brilliance, very rare £1,200-1,500
Hammer Price: £1,200
Middlesex [Medallic and other series], Buck Society, a copper ticket by J. Westwood, deer standing left, tail pointing downwards, rev. plough, industry produceth wealth, handle to in, 36mm, 20.72g/12h (DH 230; D & W 152/393). Light surface marks, otherwise extremely fine, bronzed, rare £250-300
Hammer Price: £260
Middlesex [Medallic and other series], Buck Society, a silver ticket by J. Westwood, deer standing left, tail pointing outwards, rev. plough, industry produceth wealth, handle below in, 37mm, 17.80g/12h (DH 231; D & W 152/391). Scratched in obverse field, otherwise fine and toned, very rare £120-150
Hammer Price: £130
Bedfordshire, Leighton Buzzard, Chambers, Langston, Hall & Co, Halfpenny, 1794, girl making lace, rev. sheep, edge chambers langston hall & co, 9.95g/6h (DH 3c). Virtually as struck with much original colour and mirror-like fields £70-90
Buckinghamshire, Aylesbury, Francis Wheeler, Halfpenny, 1797, fw cypher in script capitals, surmounted by the crest of a swan and encircled by wreath of oak and palm, rev. representation of the arms of the Wheeler family, crossed oak branches below, edge plain, 11.38g/10h (DH 4; Preston-Morley 1019, this piece). Most attractive surfaces, brilliant and toned, extremely rare £1,000-1,500
Buckinghamshire, Slough, William Till, Halfpenny, 1794, lion rampant to left, rev. view of the Red Lion inn, edge plain, 12.10g/12h (DH 24; Preston-Morley 1046). Brilliant mint state, bronzed £90-120
Cambridgeshire, Newmarket, Spence’s Halfpenny, 1793, stag lying under tree, rev. snail on river-bank, tree and bridge in background, edge plain, 9.06g/6h (DH 35). Usual die cracks and flaws on obverse, otherwise extremely fine and attractively patinated, extremely rare; only one other specimen [Cokayne’s] offered at auction since 1944 £3,000-3,500
Hammer Price: £2,900
Cheshire, Beeston, Skidmore’s Halfpenny, 1797, castle and bridge, rev. sac cypher, edge engrailed, 9.11g/6h (DH 4). Virtually as struck with full original colour, rare £200-250
Hammer Price: £230
Cheshire, Macclesfield, Roe & Co, Hancock’s Halfpenny, 1790, bust of Charles Roe right, rev. Genius seated left, holding drill and cog-wheel, edge payable at macclesfield liverpool or congleton, 12.31g/6h (DH 25). Small metal flaw on cheek of Roe, otherwise virtually as struck with full original colour £90-120
Hammer Price: £120
Cheshire, Macclesfield, Roe & Co, Hancock’s Halfpenny, 1792, similar, edge payable at macclesfield liverpool or congleton, 12.82g/6h (DH 57, flaw in date). Some light abrasions in fields, otherwise good extremely fine, attractive reflective surfaces £60-80
Hammer Price: £85
Cheshire, Macclesfield, Roe & Co, Westwood’s Farthing, 1790, similar, no buttons on coat, edge engrailed, 4.61g/5h (DH 83). Usual light die flaws, otherwise virtually as struck with much original colour, beginning to tone £80-100
Cornwall, Penryn, George Chapman George, Halfpenny, 1794, arms, rev. laureate bust, flags and drum behind, edge plain, 11.15g/6h (DH 4). FDC, bronzed £80-100
Hammer Price: £95
Cornwall, Truro, Cornish Metal Co, Halfpenny, 1791, druid’s head left within wreath, rev. arms, edge plain, 12.86g/6h (DH 2). Tiny graze in reverse field, otherwise brilliant and as struck , bronzed £80-100
Cumberland, County series, James’ Lake Farthing, 1796, lakeland scene, rev. fence dividing two trees, edge plain, struck out of collar, 9.58g/12h (DH 2a). Flaw on rim at 6 o’clock, otherwise virtually as struck with most attractive brown patina and a hint of original colour, very rare £300-350
£300–£350
Devon, Exeter, Samuel Kingdon, Halfpenny, 1792, bust of Bishop Blaize three-quarters right dividing date, rev. arms and supporters, edge payable at the warehouse of samuel kingdon, 12.65g/6h (DH 1). Virtually as struck and attractively patinated, very rare £150-200
Hammer Price: £200
Devon, Exeter, Samuel Kingdon, Halfpenny, 1792, bust of Bishop Blaize three-quarters right, rev. arms and supporters, date below, edge payable at the warehouse of samuel kingdon, 12.41g/6h (DH 2). Practically as struck with almost full original colour £80-100
Hammer Price: £140
Dorset, Poole, Richard Allen, Skidmore’s Halfpenny, 1797, Prince of Wales’ feathers above an oval inscribed 75, rev. legend in six lines, edge engrailed, 9.15g/6h (DH 3). From the usual damaged reverse die, virtually as struck with almost full original colour, rare £350-400
Dorset, Poole, James Bayly, Halfpenny, 1795, Hope leaning on anchor and supporting shield, rev. arms, edge i promise to pay on demand one halfpenny, 9.95g/6h (DH 6). Virtually as struck, olive-green patina £60-80
Hammer Price: £70
Co Durham, Sunderland, Rowland Burdon, Denton’s Penny, 1796, view of iron bridge with two vessels passing underneath, rev. legend in eight lines within palm wreath, edge on demand in london liverpool or anglesey, 28.97g/7h (DH 3). Struck over an Anglesey Penny token, of which traces and the edge remain, extremely fine with a little original colour, very rare £600-800
Hammer Price: £580
Co Durham, Sunderland, Rowland Burdon, Prattent’s Halfpenny, 1796, bridge, rev. arms of Robert Orchard, edge plain, 10.52g/6h (DH 11). Extremely fine and attractively patinated, rare £90-120
Essex, Colchester, Charles Heath, Halfpenny, 1794, castle, rev. loom, edge payable at charles heaths bay maker colchester, 10.41g/6h (DH 10; Judson 1040). From the obverse die without flaw, virtually as struck with some original colour and reflective surfaces £60-80
Essex, Colchester, Charles Heath, Halfpenny, 1794, from the same dies as previous, edge payable at charles heaths bay maker colchester, 8.57g/12h (DH 10; Judson –). From the obverse die with extensive north-south flaw, extremely fine, obverse with much original colour £60-80
Hammer Price: £50
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