18th Century British Trade Tokens

Middlesex [City of London], Bishopsgate, Meymott & Son, Proof Halfpenny, 1795, in silver, Britannia seated left, holding a pair of scales and a spear, rev. City arms, edge corner of wormwood street bishopsgate, 13.20g/12h (DH 378). Tiny metal flaw by shaft of spear, otherwise extremely fine and attractively toned, very rare £350-400

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

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Provenance: A Collection of 18th Century Trade Tokens, Part I, Mark Rasmussen FPL 8, Summer 2005 (79); R.S. Bole Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 69A, 16 March 2006, lot 178