British Tokens

18th Century Tokens, Warwickshire, Warwick, The Greatheed Petition to Dismiss the King’s Ministers, 1797, a white metal medal, unsigned, three men in cart exhorting the crowds on either side, gallows above, rev. from the same die as previous, 34mm, 14.04g/12h (DH 10; BHM 444). Struck slightly off-centre and areas of tin pest on obverse, otherwise about very fine and extremely rare £250-350

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

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Provenance: W. Longman Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 March 1958, lot 270 (part) [from Baldwin April 1924]; Baldwin Auction 61, 26 May 2009, lot 300