Auction Catalogue

15 December 2005

Starting at 9:30 AM

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Tickets and Passes, Important British Trade Tokens, Coin Weights

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

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Lot

№ 1967

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15 December 2005

Hammer Price:
£60

Chesham, Adam Simpson, Halfpenny, 1795, 9.39g/6h (DH 20; Preston-Morley 1037, this coin); Slough, William Till, Halfpenny, 1794, 11.65g/6h (DH 22 [copper]; Preston-Morley 1041), William Till and John Peckham, mule Halfpenny, 1794, 11.46g/12h (DH 25; Preston-Morley 1050); John Peckham, Halfpenny, 1795, 11.23g/12h (DH 27; Preston-Morley 1052) [4]. First two extremely fine with almost full original colour, others about very fine, last with abrasion marks (£80-100)

Provenance:
*DH 20 P. Preston-Morley Collection, DNW Auction 52, 28-9 November 2001, lot 1037 [from Spink November 1971], bt Baldwin June 2004
DH 22 bt Baldwin March 2005
DH 25 Bonhams Auction, 25 May 2004, lot 552 (part)
DH 27 bt J. Holman October 2004