British Tokens

18th Century Tokens, Middlesex [City of London], High Holborn, Christopher Ibberson, imitation Halfpenny by W.J. Taylor, c. 1870, in white metal, 8.43g/12h (DH 343); George III, Thanksgiving at St Paul’s, 1789, medals (2), by C. James, in gilt-copper, 33mm, 12.82g/12h (DH 176; BHM 294), and by J. Milton, in copper, 33mm, 13.52g/12h (DH 177; BHM 295); Naval Thanksgiving at St Paul’s, 1797, a white metal medal, unsigned, providence this day acknowledged, etc, 33mm, 14.54g/6h (DH 197; BHM 442) [4]. About extremely fine and better, but third with metal flaw at edge £200-250

Provenance: SNC August 2005 (3393, 3394, 3400, 3405), additionally: DH 176 and *197 F.S. Cokayne Collection [176 ‘U.S.A.’ Collection, from Baldwin December 1926, 197 from Baldwin]