18th Century British Trade Tokens

Middlesex [City of London], Chelsea, Lutwyche’s mule Penny, Hope leaning on anchor, rev. Parys Mine Co cypher, edge we promise to pay the bearer one penny, 17.79g/12h (DH 8). Extremely fine and patinated, exceptionally rare; only one other specimen known £900-1,200

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

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Provenance: S.H. Hamer Collection, Glendining Auction, 26-8 November 1930, lot 115 (part); T.A. Jan Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 26, 9 February 1983, lot 118; S. Sweet Collection, Glendining Auction, 28 June 1989, lot 355.

First published by W.J. Davis in 1899; only the Davis and Hamer specimens have ever appeared on the market. The token combines the reverse die of DH Middlesex 277 with the obverse of the die used for lot 51 in this auction and the Anglesey mules DH 261-3