British Tokens

18th Century Tokens, Lothian (Midlothian), Edinburgh, D. Sinclair, Farthings (2), edge plain, 2.38g/6h (DH 122), on thick flan with fabricated legend a.m.19 on edge, 4.32g/6h (Farnell, SCMB 1959, p.212, this piece; cf. DH 122) [2]. About very fine, second heavily lacquered £50-70

Provenance: First W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 1318 (part) [from Spink 1973], bt R. Gladdle August 1998; second J.R. Farnell Sr Collection, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet Auction (New York), 26 May 1982, lot 87 (part), N.G. Brodie Collection, DNW Auction 55, 8 October 2002, lot 205 [from S.E. Schwer May 1989].

The Sinclair farthing was issued 1811-19, but is retained in sequence here for convenience