Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Transportation: a Georgian Halfpenny [pre-1776], both sides planed flat and engraved, male figure in long-coat standing right, wielding a paint-brush(?) on the window frame of a bricked wall of a house, t. woolf bn oc 23 1766 around, rev. when this you see remember me tho maney miles we distant be in seven lines, 27mm. Very fine, competent style; worthy of further research £150-£200

Provenance: R. Lyall Collection.

The owner’s ticket states that Woolf had been transported on one of the vessels named Asia. ‘He was in N.S.W. in the 1828 Census when he was in ‘No.10 Iron Gang’ on the Northern Road’