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

Thomas Spence series, Mule Halfpence (7), heads of man and ass conjoined, revs. man in prison gnawing bone, edge plain, 10.62g/1h (DH 790b), Cain slaying Abel, edge grained, 9.08g/11h (DH 791), lion and cock, edge grained, 8.83g/6h (DH 792), two men dancing round fire, spence edge, 10.34g/9h (DH 793), pig (3), spence * edge, 11.29g/6h (DH 794a), edge grained, 9.58g/7h (DH 794b), edge plain, 10.35g/6h (DH 794c) [7]. DH 792 good fine, others about extremely fine or better, DH 793, 794a and 794c with original colour, several very rare £300-350

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

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Provenance: DH 790b bt R. Gladdle September 1990; DH 791 S.H. Hamer Collection, Glendining Auction, 26-8 November 1930, lot 219 (part), F.S. Cokayne Collection, bt A. Davisson April 1998; DH 792 G.W. Spencer Collection, Spink Auction 28, 28 April 1983, lot 106 (part), M.Z. Gerson Collection, W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty, Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 611 (part), bt R. Gladdle November 1998; DH *793, 794a, 794b and 794c F.S. Cokayne Collection, bt A. Davisson April 1998 [794c from Baldwin November 1929]