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Sold between 16 & 16 March 2005

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18th Century Tokens from the Collection formed by David Litrenta

Dr David Edward Litrenta

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Lot

№ 1326

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16 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£270

18th Century, Middlesex, St Martin’s Lane, John Delaporte, ‘Penny’ or advertising check, 11.14g/12h (DH 14, the plate coin). Planchet a trifle bent, otherwise about very fine and very rare, especially in this state (£100-150)

The second finest example of one of Delaporte’s checks seen by the cataloguer; the best, that formerly in the Norman collection (DH 14 bis), brought £600 at auction in 2000 (Baldwin Auction 23, lot 964)