18th Century British Trade Tokens

Gloucestershire, Badminton, Kempson’s mule Halfpence (5), from the same obv. die as previous, revs. wheatsheaf, 9.16g/6h (DH 27), scales (2), copper, 9.67g/6h, gilt-copper, 9.43g/6h (both DH 28), scales 1795-96, 9.33g/6h (DH 29), scales april 1796, 9.49g/6h (DH 30) [5]. DH 29 fine, others extremely fine but DH 28 and 30 with marks in obverse fields £150-200

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

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Provenance: DH 27 and 30 T. McGoldrick Collection, Spink Auction 7, 5 December 1979, lot 139 (part)[from Spink June 1969], M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 53, 19 June 1986, lot 49 (part); *DH 28 gilt-copper A Good Collection of 18th Century Tokens, DNW Auction 29, 9 April 1997, lot 405; others M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 53, 19 June 1986, lot 49 (part)