18th Century Tokens, Warwickshire, Birmingham, Charles Pye, Halfpenny, 1797, cp cypher, rev. Moneta seated right holding cornucopia of coins, bee-hive and bees at right, edge plain, 17.26g/12h (DH 223). Small spot adjacent to Moneta’s face, otherwise extremely fine and very rare £180-220

Provenance: M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part II, Spink Auction 58, 30 April 1987, lot 288; bt M.J. Dickinson.

36 struck