18th Century British Trade Tokens

Hampshire, Gosport, Thomas Wood, Jacobs’ Penny, 1798, flags and drum, rev. t. wood salesman, etc, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 26.42g/12h (DH 2). Usual light die flaws both sides, a couple of minor spots in obverse field, otherwise virtually as struck and attractively patinated, rare £250-300

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

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Provenance: J. Spingarn Collection FPL (41) [from Spink]; J. Spingarn Collection, DNW Auction 52, 28-9 November 2001, lot 1097