18th Century British Trade Tokens

Warwickshire, Birmingham, Skidmore’s Copper Company Farthings (4), revs. stork on cornucopia of flowers, edges plain (2), 3.70g/6h (DH 476a, thin flan), 5.00g/6h (DH 476a, thick flan), may a flowing trade, etc (2), edge grained, 3.86g/6h (DH 478), edge plain, 4.80g/6h (DH 478a); a workman’s freak from Halfpenny dies, 4.09g/6h (DH 477) [5]. Last fair but very rare, first fine, third about very fine but flan defects, others extremely fine with original colour
£90-120

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

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Provenance: DH 476a thin flan bt J. Spingarn November 1997; *DH 476a thick flan bt W. Anderson January 1996; DH 477 T.A. Jan Collection, Part II, Spink Auction 35, 11 April 1984, lot 140 (part), bt J.A. Bobbe April 1993 [from P. Flanagan]; DH 478 bt P. Flanagan April 1981; DH 478a bt R. Gladdle November 1996