18th Century British Trade Tokens

Middlesex [City of London], Leather Lane, John Hancock, Halfpenny, 1796, shop front and umbrella, reads n19, rev. jh cypher, edge plain, 11.57g/12h (DH 320). Flan slightly bent, otherwise virtually as struck with original colour and reflective fields £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, 18th Century Tokens from the Dr Allen Bennett Collection.

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Provenance: P.C. Deane Collection; W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 451; J. Spingarn Collection FPL (144); bt J.S. March 2001