British Tokens

18th Century Tokens, Warwickshire, Warwick, The Greatheed Petition to Dismiss the King’s Ministers, 1797, a copper medal, unsigned, three men in cart exhorting the crowds on either side, gallows above, rev. as if from temple bar some head was cut, and on rebelling trunk the face was put, 36mm, 20.33g/12h (DH 7; BHM 444). Reverse partly weak, otherwise good very fine, very rare £400-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection.

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Provenance: W.J. Noble Collection, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 922 [from Baldwin 1978]; D.L. Spence Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 67A, 29 September 2005, lot 1799 [from R. Gladdle November 1998]