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Sold on 13 May 2025

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The ‘Royal Berkshire’ Collection of Berkshire Tokens, Tickets and Passes

Lot

№ 36

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13 May 2025

Hammer Price:
£80

Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Blewbury, Samuel Huggins, copper Farthings (4), all 22mm, reading wholesale, 3.29g/12h (W 1070), reading wholsale (3), 3.65g/12h, 3.62g/12h, 3.37g/12h (all W 1072) [4]. Third extremely fine, last fine, others about very fine £60-£80

W 1070 bt Baldwin 1963; W 1072 at 3.65g bt at Reading Coin Club 1976; W 1072 at 3.62g D. Pottinger Collection, DNW Auction T6, 19 March 2009, lot 239 (part) [from S.E. Schwer January 1982]; W 1072 at 3.37g R. Gibbs Collection, Glendining Auction, 7 June 1988, lot 213 (part), bt S.E. Schwer 1988.

Samuel Huggins (†July 1878), farmer and gunmaker