Auction Catalogue

6 October 2010

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

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 450 x

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£490

Thomas Spence series, Mule Halfpence (6), from the same obv. die as previous, revs. lion and cock, edge plain, 10.27g/6h (DH 807c), shepherd (3), london and engrailed edge, 8.86g/6h (DH 808), edge engrailed, 9.13g/12h (DH 808a), edge plain, 10.85g/4h (DH 808b), view of the Bastille, 10.41g/6h (DH 809), boys at turnstile, 10.21g/6h (DH 810) [6]. DH 810 very fine, others about extremely fine, DH 807c better, DH 808a rare £200-250

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

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Provenance: *DH 807c bt J.A. Bobbe December 1998; DH 808 T. McGoldrick Collection, Spink Auction 7, 5 December 1979, lot 198 (part), M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 53, 19 June 1986, lot 268 (part), with R. Gladdle, bt J.A. Bobbe May 1997; DH 808a and 809 F.S. Cokayne Collection, bt A. Davisson April 1998; DH 808b with Seaby 1957, SCMB June 1964, bt P. Flanagan February 1994; DH 810 C. Orton Collection, Neale’s Auction (Nottingham), 29 October 1980, lot 496, M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 53, 19 June 1986, lot 268 (part), bt R. Gladdle September 1986