18th Century Tokens, Staffordshire, Tamworth, John Harding, uniface trial of an unfinished obv. die intended for a Penny, castle, windows and trees added, distinctive ground-line and other further detail, edge on demand i promise to pay the bearer one penny, 26.89g (DH 7 bis, this piece). Extremely fine and attractively patinated, much as made, of the highest rarity
£1,500-2,000

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

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Provenance: With A.H.F. Baldwin; W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 837 [from S.E. Schwer 1987]; bt A. Davisson 2008.

This piece may be that from the Waite-Sanderson Sale, lot 184, acquired by Baldwin, perhaps for Cokayne