Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes

Gloucestershire, Brimscombe Port, Thames and Severn Canal Co, Halfpence, 1795 (4), all plain sails, plain line and dots under date, 9.87g/6h (DH 59), plain line under date (3), payable at brimscombe port edge, 10.33g/6h (DH 60), payable at brimscombe edge, 10.04g/6h (DH 60, edge unpublished), flaw at edge of sails, 9.71g/12h (DH 61) [4]. First very fine and patinated, third about very fine but not recorded in the standard reference, others extremely fine, second with almost full original colour, last bronzed (£80-100)

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 59 and *60 F.W. Lincoln Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 February 1936, lot 204 (part) [DH 59 from J. Henry]
DH 61 SNC January-February 1915 (27180).

Opened in 1789, the Thames and Severn Canal linked the River Severn at Wallbridge, near Stroud, with the River Thames at Lechlade. It was abandoned in 1933 but some sections are currently under restoration. The reverse depicts the entrance to the Sapperton tunnel, 3,817 yards (3.5 km) in length, at the time of its construction the longest navigable tunnel ever built