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

№ 2027

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15 December 2005

Hammer Price:
£85

Hereford, Robert Biddulph, Milton’s Penny, 1796, bull breaking its chains, election date above, rev. apple-tree and short-handled plough within wreath, edge plain, 17.73g/12h (DH 1). A late striking with die crack running across animal; minor surface marks, otherwise extremely fine and lightly patinated, very rare (£100-150)

Provenance:
Fawcett/Litman Collection
D.L. Spence Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 63, 7 October 2004, lot 1285