18th Century British Trade Tokens

Middlesex [City of London], Soho, Robert Orchard, Jacobs’ Halfpenny, 1795, bust left, rev. arms, edge plain, 13.35g/6h (DH 399). On a thick flan, usual die flaw on obverse, some trifling spots, otherwise brilliant and practically as struck, full original colour, most attractive £120-150

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

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Provenance: The Property of a Gentleman, Spink Auction 96, 31 March 1993, lot 328 (part); J.A. Bobbe Collection; bt J.A.B. June 2001