Tickets and Passes, Important British Trade Tokens, Coin Weights

Leigh, J. Hemmin, Farthing, 1796, view of St Mary’s Church, rev. dealer in all kind of hardware, edge plain, 3.54g/6h (DH Essex 42). Almost extremely fine with original colour, rare (£80-100)

Provenance:
Revd W.L. Gantz Collection, Glendining Auction, 23-7 June 1941, lot 1665 (part)
DNW Auction 62, 30 June 2004, lot 1300.

Tony Fox has recently offered convincing evidence to show that this token is almost certainly of Leigh, Worcestershire, not Leigh-on-Sea, Essex (CTCJ Spring 2005, pp.14-17)