The Collection of 18th Century Tokens formed by Dr David L Spence

Strand, J. and Gilbert Pidcock, Halfpence (5), undated, reads exibition, 8.79g/5h (DH 414); 1795 (4), all reading exhibition, dublin edge, 9.87g/6h (DH 415), edge grained, 9.46g/6h (DH 415a), edge plain, 6.66g/6h (DH 415b), payable in lancaster london or bristol edge, 9.04g/6h (DH 415, edge unlisted by Davisson) [5]. Third very fine and as struck on a large flan, exhibiting a large die flaw on obverse, very rare, others about extremely fine and better, first two with much original colour, last extremely rare (£120-150)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of 18th Century Tokens formed by Dr David L Spence.

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Provenance:
DH 415a The Property of a Gentleman, Glendining Auction, 8 October 1919, lot 163 (part), W. Longman Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 March 1958, lot 169 (part)
Others all W. Longman Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 March 1958, lot 169 (part) [414 and 415b from Lincoln March 1903, 415 from Baldwin December 1905, *415 with lancaster edge from Spink December 1922], Fawcett/Litman Collection.

J. and Gilbert (†1810, aged 67) Pidcock, proprietors of the Exeter Change menagerie situated on the site of the old Exeter House, on the north side of the Strand near to the Lyceum, which closed in 1828. The edge reading on the last token was tentatively assigned the number DH 415c by the Longman cataloguer, but this addition was not picked up on by Farnell, writing one year later (SCMB July 1959, p.254) and seems to have been unremarked on in print since. Davisson (1990, p.xii) assigns 415c to another previously unrecorded edge