Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

WARWICKSHIRE, Birmingham, William Lutwyche, Halfpenny, 14.58g/6h (DH 219b), Farthing, 4.69g/6h (DH 482); James Sketchley, Lutwyche’s Masonic Halfpence (9), 9.05g/6h (DH Middlesex 369b), 8.98g/6h (DH 370), 9.37g/6h (DH 370a), 8.84g/6h (DH 371), 9.46g/6h (DH 371a), 9.98g/6h (DH 372), 9.60g/6h (DH 372a), 7.99g/6h (DH 372b), 9.60g/6h (DH 372c), Lutwyche’s mule Halfpence (5), 9.47g/6h (DH 367), 9.22g/6h (DH 367a), 9.76g/6h (DH 368), 8.50g/6h (DH 373), 8.82g/6h (DH 374); Union Mill, copper check, 1796, no. 107, 14.59g/4h (DH 37); Kempson’s Halfpence, 1793 (2), 11.25g/12h, 10.15g/12h (both DH 50h, former with edge filed to deceive), mule Halfpenny, 8.14g/6h (DH 58); Kempson’s Buildings and Churches (3), New Brassworks, 10.70g/6h (DH 202), New Jerusalem Temple, 11.76g/6h (DH 169), St Philip’s Church, 12.63g/6h (DH 175); Skidmore’s mule Halfpenny, ps cypher, rev. bust of General Elliot left, 11.33g/6h (DH 224); Skidmore’s Copper Company Farthing, 4.95g/6h (DH 476a); Birmingham Riots [or the Second Anniversary of the French Revolution], 1791, a copper medal, unsigned [perhaps by J.G. Hancock], 34mm, 16.86g/12h (DH 34; BHM 360); Farming Monopolies, 1800, a white metal medal, unsigned [by J.G. Hancock for P. Kempson], 37mm, 17.43g/6h (DH Middlesex 240; BHM 497) [26]. DH Middlesex 367 and DH Warwickshire 169, 175, 202, 219b, 224, 476a and 482 about extremely fine or better, others in varied state £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection.

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Provenance: Middlesex DH 240 J.R. Farnell Collection, Part I, Sotheby Auction (New York), 8 December 1981, lot 125 (part), W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 400; DH 367 bt R. Gladdle August 1992; DH 367a P.C. Deane Collection, W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 469 (part) [from P.C.D. 1985]; DH 370a bt P. Flanagan April 1980; DH 374 bt S. Cordova September 1989; Warwickshire DH 50h at 11.25g bt P. Flanagan July 1983; DH 58 bt A. Davisson July 1996; DH 169 bt R. Gladdle September 1990; DH 175 bt R. Gladdle April 1988; DH 219b bt P. Flanagan June 1986; DH 476a bt P. Flanagan October 1980; DH 482 bt M.Z. Gerson May 1979