Auction Catalogue

7 October 2009

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 397

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7 October 2009

Hammer Price:
£310

18th Century Tokens, Middlesex [incorporating London], High Holborn, Skidmore’s mule Halfpence (3), ruins of church, revs. register stove, edge plain, 11.36g/6h (DH 527); men at forge (2), skidmore edge, 12.86g/6h (DH 528), grained edge, 9.57g/5h (DH 528a) [3]. First extremely fine with considerable original colour, others nearly so and both with characteristic die flaw on reverse, all very rare
£150-200

Provenance: DH 528 W. Norman Collection, Sotheby Auction, 13-15 July 1903, lot 145 (part), F.S. Cokayne Collection; DH 528a F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Spink February 1907].

DH 527 only illustrated