18th Century British Trade Tokens

Middlesex [City of London], Leather Lane, John Hancock, Halfpenny, 1796, shop front and umbrella, reads n19, rev. jh cypher, edge plain, 11.10g/12h (DH 320). Flan not bent, lacquered but not unpleasing, extremely fine £90-120

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

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Provenance: J.R. Farnell Collection, Part I, Sotheby Parke Bernet Auction (New York), 8 December 1981, lot 134 (part); bt R. Gladdle March 1982