Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes

Gloucestershire, Gloucester, Kempson’s City Pennies, 1797 (11), revs. Cathedral, 17.90g/6h (DH 1), St Mary de Crypt Church, 16.73g/6h (DH 2), St Mary de Lode Church (2), no buttresses, 16.74g/6h (DH 3), with buttresses, 16.31g/6h (DH 4), St Michael’s Church, 17.18g/6h (DH 5), St Nicholas’ Church, 17.48g/6h (DH 6), St John’s Church, 16.89g/6h (DH 7), White Friars, 16.33g/6h (DH 8), High Cross, 16.00g/6h (DH 9), New County Gaol, 16.68g/6h (DH 10), St Bartholomew’s Hospital, 16.99g/6h (DH 11) [11]. The complete series, about extremely fine and better but DH 6 with traces of old collectors’ number ‘16’ in reverse field, all bronzed except DH 9 and 11 (£200-300)

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, and with pre-1910 J.H. Daniels tickets.

DH 4 only illustrated. Gloucester Cathedral, first built in 1061 and re-established by Henry VIII in 1541; St Mary de Crypt, Southgate street; St Mary de Lode, Archdeacon street, the city’s oldest, rebuilt in 1826; St Michael’s, Eastgate street, 12th century, closed in 1940 and demolished in 1956; St Nicholas’, Westgate street, 13th century, closed in 1975; St John’s, Northgate street, 11th century; White Friars (recté Greyfriars); High Cross, demolished 1751; New County gaol, Gloucester quay, opened 1791; St Bartholomew’s hospital, Westgate street, rebuilt 1787-90 by William Price, now restored as a shopping and craft centre