Auction Catalogue

16 March 2006

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Important British Trade Tokens

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

Lot

№ 462

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16 March 2006

Hammer Price:
£190

Chelsea, issuer uncertain, Halfpenny, 1795, 9.94g/6h (DH 277); Strand, J. and Gilbert Pidcock, Farthings (2), elephant, rev. cockatoo, 3.25g/6h (DH 1067a), lion, rev. beaver, 3.44g/5h (DH 1069); West Smithfield, Matthew Denton, Farthing, 1795, 3.92g/6h (DH 1053); Thomas Spence series, mule Halfpenny, heads of William Pitt and Charles Fox conjoined, rev. heart and hand, 6.55g/12h (DH 804c); National series, George III and Queen Charlotte, brass medalets by T. Wyon Sr, 3.17g/12h, 3.08g/12h, both 22mm (both DH 1137; BHM 340); Political and Social series, Kempson’s Thomas Erskine Halfpenny, 7.59g/6h (DH 1010; BHM 375), John Horne Tooke Halfpenny, 1794, 8.71g/6h (DH 1045a); together with other miscellaneous Middlesex tokens (19), viz. 295, 306, 308, 351, 354, 362c, 363, 369a, 393, 473, 914, 952, 956 bis, 986, 1017f, 1034, 1037a, 1151, 1156 [28]. First nine very fine and better, others generally fine, one pierced (£120-150)