British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books including the David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Books

Central London, Uncertain locality, W. Sheward, Halfpence, 1792 (4), edge coarse upright graining, 12.62g/6h (DH 928), fine upright graining, 12.62g/6h (DH 928a), edge obliquely grained, 11.83g/6h (DH 928b), edge plain, 11.75g/6h (DH 928d); Uncertain issuers, Mail Coach series, Halfpence (4), with initials jf, 8.85g/12h (DH 363), with initials afh, 8.20g/12h (DH 366), 1797 (2), 8.64g/12h (DH 364), 7.39g/12h (DH 365); I.M. & Co, Halfpence, 1795 (2), edge grained, 8.54g/9h (DH 911), edge plain, 8.26g/6h (DH 911b); Kempson’s ‘London Essex and Norfolk’ Halfpence (2), 10.25g/12h (DH 923), 10.28g/12h (DH 924); Lutwyche’s Westminster Halfpenny, 1792, edgbaston edge, 12.14g/6h (DH 929); ‘Honor and Use of Trade’ Halfpence (4), revs. ship (2), edge plain, 7.01g/6h (DH 925), dublin edge, 8.53g/2h (DH 925a), leopard’s head crest (2), reads fo, 7.05g/6h (DH 926), reads of, 6.84g/5h (DH 927); ‘London and Middlesex’ Farthing, 1793, 3.94g/6h (DH 1124) [18]. DH 365, 925, 925a, 926 and 927 fine, DH 928d poor, others generally very fine, a few better £90-120

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

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Provenance: DH 363 bt J.A. Bobbe March 1997; DH 364 and 923 bt M.Z. Gerson April 1978; DH 365 and 926 bt J. Spingarn August 1997; DH 366 and 925a bt M.Z. Gerson November 1981; DH 911 bt J.A. Bobbe May 1997; DH 911b bt J.A. Bobbe April 1993; DH 924 bt P. Flanagan November 1995; DH 925 bt P. Flanagan June 1985; DH 928 bt R. Gladdle May 1996; DH 927 and 928a bt M.Z. Gerson September 1978; DH 928b M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 53, 19 June 1986, lot 282 (part), bt R. Gladdle August 1986; DH 928d bt A. Davisson July 1996; DH 929 bt R. Gladdle April 1988; DH 1124 bt F. Seymour September 1994 [from R. Gladdle]