Auction Catalogue

5 October 2011

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18th Century British Trade Tokens

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 139

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5 October 2011

Hammer Price:
£300

Middlesex [City of London], Soho, Robert Orchard, Milton’s Proof Penny, 1803, in silver, draped bust right, rev. legend, edge plain, 23.09g/12h (DH 38; Stainton 45). A pocket piece; rims knocked and fields scuffed, otherwise good fine, of the highest rarity £300-400

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

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Provenance: W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 290 [from Baldwin 1994]