18th Century British Trade Tokens

Shropshire, Willey and Snedshill, John Wilkinson, imitation Halfpence (17), 1787 (4), willey edge, 16.42g/12h (DH Warwickshire 372), anglesea edge, 10.04g/11h (DH 370), anglesey edges (2), 10.95g/6h (DH 373a), 9.48g/6h (DH 374a); 1791 (13), reads wilkinson (6), anglesey edge, 9.43g/7h (DH 439), london edge, 9.27g/6h (DH 441), lancaster edge, 8.86g/6h (DH 441b), dublin edge, 8.36g/6h (DH 442b), suffolk edge, 9.63g/6h (DH 442d), bristol edge, 9.23g/12h (DH 445), reads wilkenson (7), 11.41g/12h (DH 446), 10.76g/12h (DH 446a), 10.83g/6h (DH 446c), 11.39g/12h (DH 446d), 9.89g/11h (DH 446e), 9.96g/11h (DH 447a), 11.88g/11h (DH 447b) [17]. DH 441 extremely fine with considerable original colour, DH 446c mediocre, others generally fine to very fine, the weight of DH 372 exceptional £100-150

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

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Provenance: DH 370 and 447b bt B. Sailor August 1997; DH 372 S.V. Hagley Collection, W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 1033 (part); DH 373a bt S. Cordova December 1991; DH 374a bt J.A. Bobbe June 2001; DH 439 bt J. Spingarn August 1997; *DH 441 bt J.A. Bobbe November 1996; DH 441b bt S. Cordova March 1994; DH 442b and 442d bt W. McKivor July 2004; DH 445 bt S. Cordova November 1989; DH 446 bt J. Spingarn May 1998; DH 446a bt P. Flanagan March 1982; DH 446c bt T. Madigan March 1993; DH 446d bt P. Flanagan October 1980; DH 446e S.V. Hagley Collection, W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 1040 (part); DH 447a bt C. Fellage December 1997