British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

Medals, The Greatheed Petition to Dismiss the King’s Ministers, Warwick, 1797, a white metal medal, unsigned, three men in cart exhorting the crowds on either side, gallows above, rev. as if from temple bar some head was cut, and on rebelling trunk the face was put, 36mm, 19.98g/12h (DH Warwickshire 9; BHM 444). Obverse very fine, reverse nearly so, very rare £200-260

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Distinguished Cabinet of British Tokens, the Property of a Gentleman.

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Provenance: W.L. Gantz Collection, Glendining Auction, 23-7 June 1941, lot 1717 (part)