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Sold on 21 September 2016

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The Collection of Staffordshire Tokens formed by the late Edward Watkin

Edward Arthur Watkin

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№ 263

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21 September 2016

Hammer Price:
£100

18th Century Tokens, Stafford, William Horton & Co, Halfpenny, 1797, arms, rev. wh cypher above Staffordshire knot, edge payable by horton and company, 10.11g/6h (DH – [obv. of 21, rev. unpublished]; cf. Watkin 12). Minor flan flaws on obverse, otherwise very fine and extremely rare £100-150

The differences between the reverse dies common to both DH 20 and 21, and the present piece, are noticeable upon close examination, most notably the larger central loop between h and c in the monogram and a shorter final lower loop to the c