Auction Catalogue

2 October 2013

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 374

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2 October 2013

Hammer Price:
£460

17th Century Tokens, Wales, denbighshire, Denbigh, Thomas Shaw, Penny, 1669, 1.24g/12h (Boon 47b; N –; D 33A). Partly weak at 5 o’clock (and corresponding on reverse) and a tiny flan crack at edge, otherwise fine and extremely rare, perhaps the best known specimen and far superior to the two in NMW £200-300

Provenance: Sotheby Auction, 5-6 October 1989, lot 973 (part).

Thomas Shaw (†1686), glover, councillor 1651, 1685