18th Century British Trade Tokens

Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Spence’s mule Halfpenny, from the same dies as previous, edge plain, 9.93g/8h (DH 850b; Bobbe, CTCJ 54, die state II). Obverse die flaw in early stage, small graze in field to right of cat, otherwise extremely fine with considerable original colour, particularly on reverse, extremely rare
£400-500

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

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Provenance: F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Spink February 1918]; W. Anderson Collection, Davissons Mailbid Sale 13, 25 April 2000 (688) [from Baldwin].

Struck before DH 850, but retained in sequence here