British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Kent, Orpington, Eradication of Horse Disease, 1795, a silver medal by J. Milton for D. Colgate, hand holding pistol firing a shot at a horse walking right, other horses dead or dying around, rev. WE ALSO ARE BUT AS YESTERDAY, etc, A MARK OF RESPECT, etc, around, 32mm, 14.53g/12h (DH 2; Stainton 15; BHM 408). Some surface and rim marks, otherwise about very fine, extremely rare £600-800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection.

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Provenance: Spink Auction 89, 25 November 1991, lot 402; W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 203