18th Century British Trade Tokens

Staffordshire, Tamworth, Francis Blick, Trial Halfpenny, 1799, in white metal from unfinished dies, church and castle, former with tall steeples, rev. fb cypher, edge plain, 11.20g/12h (DH 22). Rather surface-marked in fields, otherwise very fine to extremely fine and of the highest rarity; believed only 3 specimens known £1,000-1,500

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

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Provenance: W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 848 [from Spink 1987]; J.A. Bobbe Collection; bt J.A.B. September 2007.

The only other example noted by the cataloguer in commerce is the Norman/Hamer/Waite-Sanderson specimen, which is perhaps that illustrated in DH and inferior to the present specimen