British Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Wiltshire Coins and Paranumismatica

18th Century Tokens, Holt, David Arnot, Halfpence (3), Fame blowing trumpet, revs. sold at the spa house, etc (2), edge grained, 9.86g/6h (DH 3), edge plain, 6.14g/6h (DH 3a), building, b below, 8.19g/6h (DH 4); mule Halfpence by Kempson (6), Fame, rev. bust of George III, 9.42g/12h (DH 6), view of the Spa House (5), revs. beggar, 9.96g/6h (DH 7), legend, 10.18g/6h (DH 8), bust of George III, 9.81g/12h (DH 9), scales 1795-96, 9.85g/12h (DH 10), scales april 1796, 9.97g/6h (DH 11) [8]. DH 6, 7 and 8 extremely fine, DH 10 good fine, others generally very fine or better, some rare £120-£150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Wiltshire Coins, Tokens and Paranumismatica formed by the late David Ward.

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Provenance: *DH 8 bt P.C. Deane; DH 10 bt A. Hunt July 2008.

David Arnot, proprietor of the Spa House, Holt, opened a school for boys in September 1794. Holt’s medicinal waters were sold by Arnot’s London agent, John Griffiths, 27 St Alban’s street [now Waterloo place]