18th Century British Trade Tokens

Sussex, Brighton, Benjamin Deverell [of Fleet Market, London], Skidmore’s Halfpenny, 10.07g/6h (DH 6); William Mighell, Halfpenny, 1796, 6.65g/6h (DH 10); Lutwyche’s mule Halfpence (2), revs. bust of Thomas Seymour, 7.15g/7h (DH 11; Cobwright T0030/P0035), bust of William Shakespeare, 6.36g/6h (DH 12; Cobwright S0020/B0150); Lutwyche’s Brighton Camp Halfpence (4), 1794 (3), brighton edge (2), 10.04g/6h (DH 2), 8.96g/5h (DH 4), brighton mdccxciv edge, 9.13g/6h (DH 3a), 1795, brighton edge, 9.40g/6h (DH 5) [8]. DH 4, 10, 11 and 12 about fine, last lacquered, DH 3a extremely fine with original colour, others very fine and better £80-100

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

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Provenance: DH 2 bt A. Davisson May 1992 [and the source of the erroneous reference to the existence of a Middlesex 967f in the Davisson DH addenda]; *DH 3a bt J.A. Bobbe November 1996; DH 4 bt P. Flanagan October 1980; DH 5 and 11 bt R. Gladdle September 1990; DH 6 bt M.Z. Gerson March 1978; DH 10 bt M.Z. Gerson February 1980; DH 12 J.R. Farnell Collection, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet Auction (New York), 26 May 1982, lot 32 (part), bt J.A. Bobbe July 1982