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18th Century, Aylesbury, Francis Wheeler, mule Halfpenny, Justice seated right, holding sword and scales, rev. representation of the arms of the Wheeler family, crossed oak branches below, edge grained, 11.56g/6h (DH 6). Brilliant, with virtually full original colour, extremely rare; only one other specimen known (£400-600)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Tokens.

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Provenance:
S H Hamer Collection, Glendining Auction, 26-28 November 1930, lot 30 (part);
W Waite Sanderson Collection, Glendining Auction, 16-17 November 1944, lot 9 (part);
bt Baldwin April 1983.

This die combination was published in Virtuoso’s Companion, 153:3, 7 December 1796. The only other specimen known is that in Spink Auction 92, lot 2 [= W J Noble, lot 13]