18th Century British Trade Tokens

Middlesex [City of London], Fetter Lane, John Milton, Penny, 1800, in white metal, female personifying Science seated on globe bearing zodiacal sign, rev. Bellerophon holding Pegasus, figure crawling up rock face in background, edge plain, 15.27g/12h (DH 36; Stainton 43). From the usual flawed and uncompleted reverse die, rust marks both sides, test marks on edge, a little surface discolouration and a couple of specks of tin pest, otherwise good very fine, extremely 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: P.C. Deane Collection; M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 53, 19 June 1986, lot 95; bt Spink November 1988.

12 struck