British Tokens

19th Century Tokens, Fife-shire, Dunfermline, J. Kirk, Farthing, 1817, 2.56g/6h (DH p.439, no. 2; Davis 1); LANARKSHIRE, Calton, Henry Reid, Farthing, 1815, 2.45g/6h (DH p.439, no. 3; Davis 8); Glasgow, D. Bone & Co, Farthing, 1808, 2.05g/9h (DH p.439, no. 1, this piece illustrated; Davis 6), Phoenix Ironworks, Pennies, 1813 (3), 18.57g/12h (W 1350), 18.86g/12h (W 1351), 18.14g/12h (W 1352); Hamilton, Retailers’ Farthing, 1814, 4.04g/6h (DH p.439, no. 4a; Davis 11); LOTHIAN, Leith, William Christie, Farthing, 1819, 2.49g/12h (DH p.439, no. 1; Davis 19) [8]. First fine, second very fine, third only mediocre but very rare, others in varied state £40-60

Provenance: First bt Reading CC October 2002; second DNW Auction 36, 12 June 1998, lot 406; third R.C. Bell Collection, DNW Auction 26, 1 October 1996, lot 182 (part); fourth bt Reading CC September 1998; fifth bt March 2009; sixth bt P. Withers February 2007; seventh bt J. Whitmore November 2000; last bt R. Gladdle August 1998