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Numismatists' Tokens, London, Covent Garden, William Till, Penny-sized tokens (2), both 1834, in copper, arms, rev. dealer in ancient & modern coins medals antiques &c within wreath, both 36mm, edge grained, 25.77g/12h, and edge plain, 27.12g/12h (D & W 345/54) [2]. Extremely fine and better, both with much original colour (£40-50)

Provenance:
P. Preston-Morley Collection:

Edge grained SNC June 1970 (7490).
Edge plain Glendining Auction, 10 February 1971, lot 566 (part);
bt Spink February 1971.

William Till (†8 April 1844) was a well-known coin dealer in the 1830s and a founding member of the Numismatic Society of London in 1836, who traded from 17 Great Russell Street. He struck a number of private tokens in his own name, the dies for many of which were engraved by W.J. Taylor. He was also responsible for the Slough series of token halfpence dated 1794-5