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

Lot

№ 2160

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15 December 2005

Hammer Price:
£150

Bedale, James Metcalf, Skidmore’s Halfpenny, 11.02g/6h (DH 9c); Huddersfield, John Downing, Halfpenny, 1793, 9.63g/6h (DH 15a); Hull, Jonathan Garton & Co, Halfpenny, 1791, 12.43g/6h (DH 17); Leeds, Samuel Birchall, Halfpenny, 1795, 9.24g/6h (DH 28), Henry Brownbill, Halfpence, 1793 (2), 12.70g/6h (DH 34, bronzed), 12.29g/6h (DH 41), Richard Paley, Halfpence, 1791 (2), 12.54g/12h (DH 46), 12.64g/6h (DH 48), mule Halfpenny by Hancock/Lutwyche, rev. bust of John of Gaunt, 10.27g/6h (DH 55) [9]. DH 34 virtually as struck, DH 17 and 28 very fine, others better, first with a hint of original colour (£100-120)

Provenance:
DH 9c
SNC June 2005 (3387)
DH 28 Corbitts Auction (Newcastle), 18 June 2004, lot 1149
DH 34 bt Baldwin June 2004
DH 41 and 48 bt J. Whitmore July 2004
Others bt J. Holman