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Sport, Boxing: Spence’s mule Halfpenny, bust of Daniel Mendoza left, d mendoza above, rev. from the same die as previous, edge spence x dealer x in x coins x london x, 11.53g/6h (DH Middlesex 785). Virtually as struck with most attractive red-blue patina and reflective surfaces £500-£700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection.

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Provenance: A. Bennett Collection, DNW Auction T10, 5 October 2011, lot 305 [from J.A. Bobbe August 1998].

Daniel Mendoza (1764-1836), known in boxing circles as ‘The Jew’, enjoyed a lengthy prize fighting career during which he earnt the patronage of the Prince of Wales. He became champion of England in 1789, the same year that his book, The Art of Boxing, appeared. He subsequently opened a boxing school with his partner, William Ward, at the Lyceum in 1791. Mendoza lost his boxing title in 1795 and in later life ran two taverns in the east end of London