18th Century British Trade Tokens

Shropshire, Willey and Snedshill, John Wilkinson, Three Shillings and Sixpence, 1788, in silver, bust right, rev. barge sailing left, fine silver around, edge willey snedshill bersham bradley, 15.58g/12h (DH Warwickshire 337). Cleaned in the past, with associated surface marks and a reverse edge knock at 3 o’clock, otherwise good fine, rare £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection.

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Provenance: With Seaby; bt J.A. Bobbe April 1993.

100 struck; the issue, probably struck by Thomas Williams and promulgated on Monday, 20 October 1788, was quickly withdrawn as currency and later distributed privately as medals (Dykes, forthcoming)