The Collection of 18th Century Tokens formed by Dr David L Spence

Evesham, Thomas Thompson, Skidmore’s Penny, 1796, frontal elevation of Abbot’s Tower, rev. tt cypher in wreath, june 6 and date below, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 24.10g/12h (DH 6). Extremely fine and attractively patinated, very rare (£200-250)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of 18th Century Tokens formed by Dr David L Spence.

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Provenance:
SNC May 1912 (100655)
Fawcett/Litman Collection.

60 struck. Struck to mark the return of the issuer as MP for Evesham at the election in June 1796. Thomas Thompson (1767-1818), like his fellow MP Robert Biddulph who represented Herefordshire (Spence Part I, 1285-8), was a member of the Whig party. Along with the Tory Sir John Rushout, Bt (†October 1800, aged 62), Thompson had also been elected for Evesham in the previous election in 1790, when he polled 407 votes. Thompson, the bastard son of the token collector Mr Levi, of 39 Piccadilly, London, was also a token collector himself