Auction Catalogue

11 April 2012

Starting at 12:00 PM

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British Tokens

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 240

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11 April 2012

Hammer Price:
£110

18th Century Tokens, Lanarkshire, Glasgow, Archibald Anderson, Farthings (4), 2.28g/6h, 2.21g/12h (both DH 12/13; cf. DNW T6, lot 472, footnote), 2.18g/6h (DH 14), 2.61g/6h (DH 15); James Angus, Farthings, 1780 (3), 3.32g/6h (DH 18), 3.59g/6h (DH 20), 3.21g/6h (DH 22) [7]. DH 14, 15 and 22 about very fine, second very rare, DH 12/13 at 2.21g mediocre, others generally fine £80-100

Provenance: DH 12/13 at 2.28g bt R. Gladdle February 1997; DH 12/13 at 2.21g bt P. Withers July 2005; DH 14 bt R. Gladdle February 1998; *DH 15 bt H. Simmons October 2010; DH 18 R.C. Bell Collection, DNW Auction 26, 1 October 1996, lot 182 (part); DH 20 N.G. Brodie Collection, DNW Auction 55, 8 October 2002, lot 177 (part) [from Baldwin October 1991], bt R. Gladdle June 2003; DH 22 bt Reading CC March 2000.

It has been argued that the farthings of James Angus should be considered to be the earliest 18th century commercial tokens struck (Andison,
TCSB May 2001, p.417)