18th Century Tokens, Warwickshire, Birmingham, Thomas Welch, Penny, 1799, mounted yeoman riding left, warwickshire yeomanry, etc, rev. promissory penny token issued by thomas welch second troop 1799, edge armed to protect our lives property and constitution against foreign and domestic enemies, 27.02g/6h (DH 27). Partial double-impression of horseman, virtually as struck with considerable original colour and brilliance, of the highest rarity, said to be 3 known with this edge; the first specimen sold at public auction since 1944
£800-1,000

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 (154).

The only other examples noted by the cataloguer in commerce were in the Davis, Norman, Lincoln and Waite-Sanderson collections (which inevitably represent some duplication in ownership; Lincoln/Waite-Sanderson is documented as the same coin which in all probability could be the present piece). Not represented in Hamer, Longman or any of the other recently-dispersed major collections