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

Thomas Spence series, Mule Halfpence (5), bust of John Horne Tooke right, revs. noted advocates, etc (2), edge grained, 9.51g/2h (DH 873), edge plain, 14.31g/2h (DH 873a), t spence bookseller, etc, 9.83g/6h (DH 874), three armed citizens, spence edge, 10.72g/11h (DH 875), heart and hand, spence edge, 10.54g/5h (DH 876) [5]. DH 873 and 876 extremely fine with original colour but with minor spotting, others about extremely fine, DH 873a and 874 with dark patina, first two very rare £250-300

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

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Provenance: DH *873 and 874 S.H. Hamer Collection, Glendining Auction, 26-8 November 1930, lot 230 (part), F.S. Cokayne Collection, bt A. Davisson April 1998; DH 873a F.S. Cokayne Collection, bt A. Davisson April 1998; DH 875 bt J.A. Bobbe July 1984; DH 876 bt P. Flanagan January 1995