18th Century British Trade Tokens

Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’ series], Skidmore’s London and Westminster series, Penny, 1797, type 4, Westminster Abbey, rev. City arms surrounded with drapery, cap of maintenance divides date, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 24.58g/6h (DH 91). Virtually as struck with attractive reflective patina, rare
£300-400

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

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Provenance: T.A. Jan Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 26, 9 February 1983, lot 152; J.A. Bobbe Collection; bt J.A.B. September 2003