18th Century British Trade Tokens

Middlesex [City of London], Uncertain locality, Peter Anderson, Jorden’s Halfpenny, 1795, in white metal, City arms, domine dirige nos above shield, rev. ornate pa cypher, edge plain, 10.25g/6h (DH 249a). Scratch on cross and minor scuff marks in reverse field, otherwise extremely fine and brilliant, the obverse particularly attractive, of the highest rarity; the only specimen known to the cataloguer £500-700

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

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Provenance: From a 19th century collection; Spink Auction 92, 9 June 1992, lot 67; W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 68.

Presumably struck as a test of the altered obverse die, which then broke after 8 pieces had been struck from it (see also lot 284)