18th Century British Trade Tokens

Somerset, Bath, Kempson’s mule Halfpence (6), arms of Bath, revs. view of a street (4), edge engrailed, 9.47g/6h (DH 63; Young 1177, this piece), south shields edge, 11.20g/6h (DH 63a; Young 1178, this piece), hull edge, 8.09g/6h (DH 63b, this piece; Young 1179, this piece), edge grained, 10.17g/6h (DH 63c; Young 1180-1); entrance to the New Rooms (2), edge grained, 8.86g/12h (DH 64; Young 1182), edge plain, 9.81g/12h (DH 64a; Young 1183, this piece) [6]. Very fine to extremely fine, some with original colour, a good group, all except DH 64 very rare and DH 63b exceptionally so £200-300

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

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Provenance: DH 63 D. Young Collection, Baldwin Auction 6, 11 October 1995, lot 1177 [from S.E. Schwer July 1989], W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 807 (part); *DH 63a D. Young Collection, Baldwin Auction 6, 11 October 1995, lot 1178 [from Seaby July 1981], bt R. Gladdle November 1995; DH 63b W.J. Davis Collection, W. Sykes Collection, Spink Auction 51, 16 April 1986, lot 227, D. Young Collection, Baldwin Auction 6, 11 October 1995, lot 1179, W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 807 (part); DH 63c bt J.A. Bobbe May 1987; DH 64 bt M.Z. Gerson September 1978; DH 64a M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part II, Spink Auction 58, 30 April 1987, lot 234 (part), D. Young Collection, Baldwin Auction 6, 11 October 1995, lot 1183, bt R. Gladdle November 1995.

Exhibition: DH 63b Yorkshire Numismatic Society, Hull, 21 December 1921