18th Century British Trade Tokens

Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Denton’s ‘Swan’ Penny, 1797, swan with partly expanded wings swimming left, rev. arms of the county of Middlesex, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 24.30g/6h (DH 174; Bell, ST p.127, this piece). Virtually as struck with attractive chocolate patina, very rare
£600-800

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

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Provenance: R.C. Bell Collection, DNW Auction 26, 1 October 1996, lot 65; J. Spingarn Collection FPL (108); J. Spingarn Collection, DNW Auction 52, 28-9 November 2001, lot 1129