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PERTHSHIRE, Deanston, a copper blank, stamped on one side * deanston works *, bee-hive and bees, five shillings · below, 8.42g (Manville p.57, and pl. 9, 4; cf. W. Allen Sale, 84). Good very fine; a modern concoction made c. 1930, no contemporary originals known £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Countermarked Tokens from the Collection of Neil Beaton.

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Provenance: W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 58 (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 1599 [from P.C. Deane 1983]; N.G. Brodie Collection, DNW Auction 55, 8 October 2002, lot 243; bt R. Gladdle July 2005