Auction Catalogue

11 April 2012

Starting at 12:00 PM

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British Tokens

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 400

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11 April 2012

Hammer Price:
£300

18th Century Tokens, Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Thomas Spence series, mule Halfpence (2), both in brass, coining press, rev. Highlander, 12.75g/5h (DH 742), dog, rev. Highlander, 12.77g/5h (DH 753) [2]. Surfaces dirty, otherwise very fine, both very rare £150-200

Provenance: W. Longman Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 March 1958, lots 188, 189 (parts) [from Baldwin April 1923]; Fawcett/Litman Collection; D.L. Spence Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 67A, 29 September 2005, lots 1478, 1481 (parts); N. Beaton Collection.

DH 742 only illustrated