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London, Denton’s ‘Swan’ Penny, 1797, swan with partly expanded wings swimming left, rev. arms of the county of Middlesex, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 24.26g/6h (DH 174). Usual light die flaws on reverse, extremely fine with some original colour, very rare £1,000-£1,500
Hammer Price: £2,800
London, Denton’s Collectors’ Halfpenny, 1796, connoisseur smoking pipe, seated at table spread with medals, elderly figure placing a fool’s cap on his head, rev. two boys racing on asses to right, edge any sum given for scarce original impressions, 11.45g/12h (DH 299). Die flaw under date, very fine, obverse better, rare £150-£200
Hammer Price: £600
London, Kempson’s Buildings, Pennies (2), both type 2, Foundling Hospital, 21.94g/6h (DH 53), Middlesex Hospital, 21.53g/6h (DH 61) [2]. First virtually as struck with full original colour, second about extremely fine £120-£150
Hammer Price: £160
London, Kempson’s Buildings, Pennies (2), both type 2, Montague House altered for the British Museum, 22.03g/6h (DH 62), Monument, 25.27g/6h (DH 63) [2]. First virtually as struck with full original colour, second extremely fine, obverse with full original colour £150-£200
Hammer Price: £320
London, Kempson’s Buildings, Pennies (2), both type 2, Old Ordnance Office, 25.32g/6h (DH 64), Royal Exchange, 22.53g/6h (DH 65) [2]. Virtually as struck with full original colour, first with usual obverse die flaw £150-£200
London, Kempson’s Buildings, Pennies (2), both type 2, St Luke’s Hospital, 24.29g/6h (DH 60), St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden, 25.80g/6h (DH 52) [2]. Extremely fine, obverses with almost full original colour but former bagmarked £120-£150
Hammer Price: £60
London, Kempson’s Buildings, Pennies (2), both type 2, St Thomas’s Hospital, 24.00g/6h (DH 66), Trinity Almshouse, 24.19g/6h (DH 67) [2]. Extremely fine and better, second with full original colour on obverse £120-£150
Hammer Price: £130
London, Kempson’s Buildings, Pennies (2), type 3, London Bridge, 18.59g/6h (DH 68), type 4, Westminster Bridge, 18.63g/6h (DH 70) [2]. First extremely fine with much original colour, second good very fine £150-£200
Hammer Price: £340
London, Kempson’s Buildings, Pennies (2), both type 4, Aldgate, 18.27g/6h (DH 73), Bishopsgate, 17.85g/6h (DH 75) [2]. Extremely fine, much original colour £120-£150
Hammer Price: £120
London, Kempson’s Buildings, Pennies (2), both type 4, Bridge Gate, 18.67g/6h (DH 76), Ludgate, 17.85g/6h (DH 78) [2]. Extremely fine, first much original colour £120-£150
Hammer Price: £140
London, Skidmore’s Churches, Halfpence (2), Aldermanbury, St Mary’s, 11.97g/12h (DH 539c); Hanover Square, St George’s, 13.54g/12h (DH 592a) [2]. About extremely fine £30-£40
Hammer Price: £65
London, Skidmore’s ‘End of Pain’ mule Halfpenny, 1797, man hanging, church with finely castellated tower, rev. combustibles with labels issuing from a globe, edge plain, 10.36g/6h (DH 835). Virtually as struck with almost full original colour and reflective surfaces, rare £800-£1,000
Hammer Price: £1,500
London, Spence’s Halfpenny, 7.40g/12h (DH 676); mule Halfpence (3), bust left, revs. caduceus, 12.14g/6h (DH 679), men under tree, 12.05g/5h (DH 689), shepherd, 10.57g/5h (DH 690b) [4]. First about extremely fine, others extremely fine and better, last attractively patinated £240-£300
Hammer Price: £360
London, Spence’s mule Halfpence (2), t spence bookseller, etc, revs. Minerva standing, 12.55g/5h (DH 699), Spaniard, 12.76g/6h (DH 700b) [2]. First good very fine, second extremely fine £140-£180
Hammer Price: £240
London, Spence’s mule Halfpence (3), t spence bookseller, etc, revs. Bluecoat boy, 11.74g/12h (DH 707), Bridewell boy, 11.87g/6h (DH 708), snail on river-bank, 10.33g/7h (DH 714b) [3]. Last extremely fine with original colour, others about extremely fine £200-£260
Hammer Price: £400
London, Spence’s mule Halfpence (2), ass with paniers, rev. lion and cock, 12.78g/6h (DH 720a); Bluecoat boy, rev. Westminster scholar, 10.28g/6h (DH 724) [2]. First about extremely fine, second with trifling surface marks in reverse field, otherwise virtually as struck and bronzed £150-£200
Hammer Price: £500
London, Spence’s mule Halfpence (3), sailor seizing a landsman, revs. Free-born Englishman, 10.27g/7h (DH 730), lion and cock, 10.03g/7h (DH 733), conjoined heads of man and ass, 8.94g/6h (DH 734) [3]. Extremely fine, first with attractive red-brown patina £200-£260
London, Spence’s mule Halfpence (2), coining press, rev. Highlander, 12.29g/5h (DH 742); deserted village, rev. Britannia, 10.48g/6h (DH 744) [2]. About extremely fine and better £100-£150
London, Spence’s mule Halfpenny, dog, rev. cat, edge spence dealer in coins london, 10.48g/6h (DH 751). About extremely fine £120-£150
Hammer Price: £420
London, Spence’s mule Halfpence (3), dog (2), revs. Highlander, 12.50g/5h (DH 753), boys at turnstile, 10.42g/6h (DH 756); Free-born Englishman, rev. bust of John Thelwall, 11.49g/7h (DH 759) [3]. About extremely fine and better, first two with original colour £200-£260
Hammer Price: £550
London, Spence’s mule Halfpence (4), bust of Charles Fox right, revs. Indian, 12.65g/6h (DH 765), Cain slaying Abel, 12.61g/6h (DH 768), boys at turnstile, 10.44g/6h (DH 771), tree and two shields, 9.42g/6h (DH 772a) [4]. DH 771 about extremely fine, others extremely fine and better, DH 768 and 772a with original colour £300-£360
Hammer Price: £460
London, Spence’s mule Halfpenny, bust of Lord George Gordon left, with legend, rev. heart and hand, edge spence dealer in coins london, 12.13g/12h (DH 777). Light graze to right of hand, otherwise brilliant and virtually as struck, full original colour £150-£200
Hammer Price: £190
London, Spence’s mule Halfpence (2), bust of Lord George Gordon without legend, rev. legend in 4 lines, 10.01g/7h (DH 782; BHM 227); Marine Society boy, rev. boys at turnstile, 10.59g/12h (DH 784) [2]. First fine to very fine, second about extremely fine, original colour £70-£90
London, Spence’s mule Halfpenny, bust of Daniel Mendoza, rev. boxers, edge spence dealer in coins london, 11.19g/6h (DH 785). Extremely fine, much original colour £300-£400
Hammer Price: £1,100
London, Spence’s mule Halfpenny, two men dancing round fire, rev. noted advocates, etc, edge spence dealer in coins london, 12.20g/12h (DH 818). Extremely fine, a little original colour £90-£120
London, ‘Spence’s’ mule Halfpenny, man hanging series, type 2, man with short legs, rev. may the knave, etc, edge plain, in collar, 12.48g/12h (DH 831). About extremely fine, brown patina £240-£300
London, Spence’s mule Halfpence (3), pig, rev. noted advocates, 9.18g/6h (DH 842); man in prison gnawing bone, rev. three armed citizens, 9.60g/6h (DH 851); sailor, rev. anchor and cable, 8.98g/6h (DH 858) [3]. Last virtually as struck with full original colour, others very fine and better £150-£200
London, Spence’s mule Halfpence (4), stag and tree, rev. snail on river-bank, 10.41g/6h (DH 862); bust of John Horne Tooke right, rev. Sessions House, Old Bailey, 16.08g/12h (DH 878; BHM 380); Tree of Liberty, rev. noted advocates, etc, 12.33g/6h (DH 882); boys at turnstile, rev. Turk, 10.60g/6h (DH 897) [4]. Last extremely fine with much original colour, others about extremely fine and better £240-£300
London, Spence’s mule Halfpence (2), bust right, united token, revs. crowned harp and thistles, 11.09g/12h (DH 899), Highlander, 12.02g/12h (DH 900) [2]. Extremely fine, reverse of second with full original colour but has been lacquered £120-£150
London, Spence’s mule Farthings (5), bust left, rev. pig, 3.93g/6h (DH 1081); Adam and Eve, rev. pig, 3.94g/6h (DH 1083); Even Fellows, rev. padlock, 3.62g/6h (DH 1095a); legend (2), revs. man on bull with ass’s head, 3.07g/12h (DH 1112), three men hanging, 3.65g/2h (DH 1119) [5]. DH 1119 very fine, others about extremely fine and better, DH 1095a with original colour, DH 1112 with surface verdigris £150-£200
Hammer Price: £280
London, Spence’s mule Farthing, cat seated left, rev. hand holding open book, pig’s meat, edge plain, 3.40g/6h (DH 1091). Obverse extremely fine, reverse nearly so £150-£200
Hammer Price: £170
London, Spence’s mule Farthing, man hanging from gibbet, end of pain, rev. may the knave, etc, edge plain, 3.87g/2h (DH 1105). Striking weakness at top of reverse, otherwise extremely fine, original colour £120-£150
London, Spence’s mule Farthing, from the same obv. die as previous, rev. cap of Liberty, crossed sword and palm branch, edge plain, 4.40g/10h (DH 1108a). Extremely fine, original colour £150-£200
London, Uncertain manufacturer, Cabbage Society, token, 1796, in copper, cabbage, rev. purim and date around six-petalled flower, edge grained over an asylum for the oppress’d of all nations, 16.88g/6h (DH 227a; W 1756). Extremely fine and attractively patinated, rare £300-£400
Middlesex, Brentford, Skidmore’s Clerkenwell series, Penny, Sion House, rev. fictitious arms, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 23.88g/12h (DH 160). Minor spotting on reverse, otherwise virtually as struck, full original colour £150-£200
Hammer Price: £220
Middlesex, Chelsea, issuer uncertain, Halfpenny, 1795, sailor presenting petition to Britannia, rev. Hope leaning on anchor, edge grained, 9.54g/5h (DH 277). Extremely fine, original colour £70-£90
Middlesex, Fulham, Skidmore’s Clerkenwell series, Penny, Fulham Palace, rev. fictitious arms, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 24.77g/12h (DH 153). Extremely fine, obverse with reflective patina £150-£200
Hammer Price: £200
Middlesex, Hackney, George Butler, Skidmore’s Halfpenny, paint-pot, cask and two brushes, rev. gb cypher, edge grained, 9.28g/6h (DH 312b). Small striking crack and other minor surface defects, otherwise extremely fine with much original colour, rare £90-£120
Hammer Price: £150
Middlesex, Hackney, David Rebello, Milton’s Penny, 1796, church, rev. figure of Time seated on a cabinet, holding a tablet inscribed with Rebello’s name, edge plain, 16.61g/12h (DH 24). An original striking, extremely fine and bronzed, very rare £700-£900
Hammer Price: £440
Middlesex, Hackney, David Rebello, Milton’s Halfpenny, 1795, church, rev. dar cypher, aplustre and rudder, edge plain, 12.34g/12h (DH 309). Obverse spotted and with handling mark, otherwise extremely fine, very rare £100-£150
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