Lot Archive

Lot

№ 410

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7 October 2009

Hammer Price:
£140

18th Century Tokens, Middlesex [incorporating London], Westwood’s British Commercial Quarter-Penny, 1797, bust of George III right, rev. Britannia seated on cannon, edge plain, 7.15g/12h (DH 1150). Trifling marks, otherwise extremely fine and brilliant, bronzed, rare £80-100

Provenance: W. Longman Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 March 1958, lot 212 (part) [from Baldwin December 1912]; Fawcett/Litman Collection; Dr D.L. Spence Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 67A, 29 September 2005, lot 1557; A Collection of London 18th Century Tokens, the property of a Gentleman, DNW Auction 69A, 15 March 2006, lot 287