Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes

Gloucestershire, Badminton, David Arnot and John Jelly, Halfpence, 1795 (3), in copper (2), badminton edge, 10.25g/6h (DH 22), edge plain, 9.53g/6h (DH 22a); brass, badminton edge, 10.00g/6h (DH 22, but not in this metal) [3]. First good very fine, second extremely fine with much original colour, last fine but not recorded in the standard reference (£40-60)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of 18th Century Tokens formed by Dr David L Spence.

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Provenance:
All Fawcett/Litman Collection, additionally:
DH 22 copper F.W. Lincoln Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 February 1936, lot 202 (part) [from Spink]
DH 22a SNC February 1912 (97092).

David Arnot, proprietor of the Spa House, Holt, near Bradford-on-Avon, opened a school for boys in September 1794; John Jelly, lawyer, Gay’s place, Bath, proprietor of the city’s then Botanic Garden (not the present-day facility, which dates to 1887), declared bankrupt April 1795. These tokens, and those in the following 7 lots, were allegedly struck to perpetuate the memory of Henry, 5th Duke of Beaufort (1744-1803), during the corn crisis at the end of the 18th century