Auction Catalogue

14 December 2004

Starting at 9:30 AM

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Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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Lot

№ 1020

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14 December 2004

Hammer Price:
£75

18th Century Tokens, Ayrshire, Ayr, Col. William Fullarton, Milton’s Halfpenny, 1797, bust of William Wallace left, rev. Scotia seated, struck in collar, edge plain, 14.03g/12h (DH 3; Stainton 29). Light surface mark in obverse field, otherwise practically as struck, patinated, rare (£70-90)

Provenance:
SCMB March 1973 (SE 17).

Col. William Fullarton (1754-1808), Ayrshire landowner and MP who became governor of Trinidad in 1802 (see Dykes,
BNJ 2002, pp.150-1). 72 struck in collar