British Tokens

Numismatists Tokens and Ephemera, WARWICKSHIRE, Birmingham, William Davis and John Macmillan, New Centenary tokens (3), all 1894, on unbronzed flans with fine corded borders, from the same obv. die as previous, revs. Joseph Priestley statue, edges plain, all 29mm, 12.44g/12h (Davis 875, this piece), New General Hospital, 12.70g/12h (Davis –), Queen’s College, 12.70g/12h (Davis –) [3]. Extremely fine and exceptionally rare, the only specimens known to the cataloguer £300-£500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection.

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Provenance: S.H. Hamer Collection, Glendining Auction, 26-8 November 1930, lot 702 (part); W. Waite-Sanderson Collection, Glendining Auction, 16-17 November 1944, lot 403 (part); G.W. Spencer Collection, Spink Auction 28, 28 April 1983, lot 154; W.J. Noble Collection, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 61B (Melbourne), 3-4 August 1999, lot 394; D.E. Litrenta Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 66, 6 July 2005, lot 934.

First only illustrated