Auction Catalogue

1 October 2014

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British Tokens

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 558

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1 October 2014

Hammer Price:
£95

19th Century Tokens, YORKSHIRE, Keighley, anonymous issue, keighley countermarked on Union Copper Co Penny, 1812, 27.48g/12h (W 800); uncertain issuers [probably John Mitchell or John Murgatroyd], keighley and jm countermarked on Union Copper Co Penny, 1812, 27.22g/6h (W 805); together with keighley countermarked on obv. of Sheffield, Shaw Jobson & Co, Halfpenny, 1812, 13.44g/12h (W –) [3]. Last very fine but with severe flan crack, perhaps a workman’s trial for the punch, others fine and better £100-150

Provenance: Last R.C. Bell Collection, DNW Auction 26, 1 October 1996, lot 221 (part)