Gloucestershire, Gloucester, Skidmore’s Penny, 1797, view of St Peter’s Cathedral, rev. Thomas Gorton’s cypher, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 26.14g/12h (DH 21). Reverse rim lightly grazed, otherwise extremely fine with some original colour, rare £180-220

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

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Provenance: Fawcett/Litman Collection [from Baldwin October 1950]; D.L. Spence Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 63, 7 October 2004, lot 1256