18th Century British Trade Tokens

Cambridgeshire, Newmarket, Wyon’s Penny, 1799, two racehorses passing winning post, rev. legend, craven meeting, etc, edge plain, 22.87g/12h (DH 11; D & W 323/19). Die break on reverse in advanced state, some rubbing in field below penny, otherwise brilliant and practically as struck, bronzed, rare £700-900

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection.

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Provenance: SNC February 1972 (1433); W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 43; J. Spingarn Collection FPL (9); J. Spingarn Collection, DNW Auction 52, 28-9 November 2001, lot 1084