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Carmarthenshire, Carmarthen, John Morgan, uniface Pattern for the obv. of a Halfpenny, 1792, by J.G. Hancock, in copper, view of interior of ironworks, caermarthen iron works and date around, iohn morgan below, edge payable at the warehouse of thomas clarke, 12.38g (DH 2, edge unlisted). A pocket piece, fine, nevertheless a great rarity and perhaps the only known specimen with this edge £300-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection.

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Provenance: Col. Chance Collection; F.S. Cokayne Collection, Spink Auction 192, 24 January 2008, lot 238 [from Baldwin December 1934]