Auction Catalogue

3 October 2012

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British Tokens

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 368

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3 October 2012

Hammer Price:
£880

18th Century Tokens, Warwickshire, Warwick, The Greatheed Petition to Dismiss the King’s Ministers, 1797, a white metal medal, unsigned, from the same obv. die as previous, rev. similar, 37mm, 21.19g/12h (DH 8; BHM 444). Extremely fine with attractive surfaces and retaining considerable original brilliance, extremely rare and almost certainly the finest specimen available to commerce £700-900

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

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Provenance: Glendining Auction, 6 June 1990, lot 466; W. Anderson Collection, Davissons Mailbid Sale 13, 25 April 2000 (772)