British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

18th Century Tokens, Middlesex [incorporating London], High Holborn, Skidmore’s mule Halfpence (4), St Paul’s Covent Garden, revs. church ruins (2), SKIDMORE edge, 12.63g/6h (DH 522), grained edge, 9.08g/6h (DH 522a); bust of George III (2), edge grained, 9.36g/12h (DH 523b), faked plain edge, 8.74g/12h (cf. DH 523) [4]. About extremely fine and better, all with original colour, particularly the second, first very rare £150-200

Provenance: F.S. Cokayne Collection, additionally: DH 522 The Property of a Deceased Collector, Glendining Auction, 18 February 1909, lot 123 (part), *DH 522a from Spink April 1891, DH 523 with faked edge W.J. Davis Collection, Glendining Auction, 29-30 April 1920, lot 48 (part)