Buckinghamshire, Slough, William Till, Proof Halfpenny, 1794, in gilt-copper, from the same dies as previous, 12.12g/12h (DH 24; Preston-Morley –). Lightly tooled in the fields and a spot either side, otherwise extremely fine and brilliant, of the highest rarity as a gilt Proof and the only specimen known to the cataloguer £200-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection.

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Provenance: A Collection of 18th Century Trade Tokens, Part I, Mark Rasmussen FPL 8, Summer 2005 (5)