18th Century British Trade Tokens

Middlesex [City of London], St Martin’s Lane, Philip Ratley, a uniface trial for a Halfpenny, 1801, in lead, bust right and shield of arms in two medallions, ratley dealer in coins dukes court st martins lane, a great variety of provincial coins & tradesmens tokens, edge plain, 43.29g (DH 466). Damage to flan over s of coins and part double-striking (which occurs on all known specimens), about fine and of the highest rarity £600-800

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

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Provenance: F.S. Cokayne Collection; T.A. Jan Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 26, 9 February 1983, lot 292; W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 516.

The cataloguer knows of only two other specimens; those illustrated by Davis (ex Norman) and by Dalton and Hamer