British Tokens

Numismatists Tokens and Ephemera, YORKSHIRE, Halifax, Silver Jubilee of the Halifax Antiquarian Society, 1925, bronze medals by J.A. Restall for S.H. Hamer (2), shield containing a Halifax gibbet, flanked by paschal lamb, wool-comb and shuttle, revs. samuel henry hamer founder and secretary below inkwell and crossed quill pens, one with edge plain, other with edge i will exchange my token for an approved one and two acorns, both 38mm, 22.32g/12h, 22.24g/12h (Bell, 1966, A10a, 10b) [2]. Extremely fine, these edge variants rare £80-£100

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

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Provenance: First G.W. Spencer Collection, Spink Auction 28, 28 April 1983, lot 156 (part) [from Seaby 1965]; second P.C. Deane Collection, bt S.E. Schwer 1981