The R C Bell Collection of British Trade Tokens

18th Century, Scotland, Ayrshire, Ayr, Young’s Fullerton/Swainson restrike mule Halfpenny, 1799, bust of Prince of Wales left, reverse female dropping herbs into a brick-still, edge plain (DH 8). Obverse die with light rust marks, otherwise extremely fine and bronzed, extremely rare (£200-300)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The R C Bell Collection of British Trade Tokens.

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Bell, TT p.116.

Struck by Matthew Young some time after 1810, muling an unused pattern obverse die for Fullerton’s proposed 1799 issue of silver tokens with the reverse die of Isaac Swainson’s halfpenny, engraved for Matthew Boulton by Noel Ponthon, which had come into the possession of Young after Boulton’s death. Only one other specimen is believed to have been offered at auction in recent years (Alex Hannah collection, lot 626 – $600)