18th Century British Trade Tokens

Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Westwood’s Collectors’ Halfpenny, 1796, connoisseur smoking pipe, seated at table spread with medals, elderly figure placing a fool’s cap on his head, rev. ass and mule standing facing, be assured friend mule, etc, edge any sum given for scarce original impressions, 10.84g/6h (DH 298). Usual die flaw on reverse, obverse extremely fine, reverse nearly so but some surface defects in field, rare £400-500

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

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Provenance: O.P. Eklund Collection; J.A. Bobbe Collection; B. Wahl Collection, Part I, Davissons Mailbid Sale 20, 12 February 2004 (421) [from W. Anderson]