Important British and World Coins, Tokens, Historial and Art Medals, Numismatic Books and Banknotes

Coal Mining, Cumberland, Boonwood Colliery, Allison Crosthwaite, a copper check, pit head with engine house, rev. railway coal wagon, 31mm (D & W 283/17); Eaglesfield, Birbeck & Fletcher, Eaglesfield Lime Works, a copper ticket, lime kiln, rev. 7 in centre, 28mm (D & W 287/61); Greysouthen Colliery, Harris & Fawcett, a brass check, colliery machinery, rev. ship, 29mm (D & W 289/88); Morresby Colliery, a copper check, arms of the Brougham family, rev. legend in two lines, 25mm (D & W 292/113); Durham, Clifton Colliery, 1735, a copper ticket, dragon, rev. clifton and date, countermarked i l, 21mm (D & W 285/38), another copper ticket, arms, rev. lc monogram [Cookson], 20mm (D & W –); Northumberland, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Bewick Main Colliery, a copper check, monogram, rev. ship, 28mm (D & W 283/16); Whitefield, 1739, a copper check, whyt·feild, rev. cross above i c and date, 22mm (D & W 296/153); Ayrshire, Kilmarnock, 1786, a bracteate copper check, kilmak culm, 22mm (D & W 290/101; Brodie –) [9]. Fine and better, mostly very rare (£200-300)

Provenance:
Second SCMB January 1971 (TP 422)
Seventh bt Seaby 1975