18th Century British Trade Tokens

Somerset, Bath, Mary Lambe & Son, Lutwyche’s mule Penny, 1796, arms of Bath, rev. frontal elevation of India House, edge we promise to pay the bearer one penny, 19.87g/10h (DH 14; Young 1158, this piece). Metal flaw on lower obverse, otherwise about extremely fine and extremely rare
£400-500

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

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Provenance: S.H. Hamer Collection, Glendining Auction, 26-8 November 1930, lot 294 (part); F.S. Cokayne Collection; T.A. Jan Collection, Part II, Spink Auction 35, 11 April 1984, lot 36; D. Young Collection, Baldwin Auction 6, 11 October 1995, lot 1158; W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 791