18th Century British Trade Tokens

Warwickshire, Birmingham, 50th Birthday of Joseph Priestley, 1783, medals by J.G. Hancock (2), in silver and copper, bust right, revs. scientific apparatus on a bench, chimney with smoke at left, both 36mm, 19.36g/12h, 15.52g/12h (both DH 32; BHM 251; E 807) [2]. First fine and rare, second about extremely fine but with minor surface marks
£150-200

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

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Provenance: Silver bt J.A. Bobbe April 1999; *copper W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 945 [from Spink 1976]