18th Century British Trade Tokens

Warwickshire, Coventry, Thomas Sharp, Trial Halfpenny, 1797, in white metal, seated female, cityscape behind, rev. Georgian house with man leaning from upper window, other windows not filled in, edge plain, 10.25g/12h (DH 311). Small area of tin pest in obverse field, otherwise about extremely fine, 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: Spink Auction 43, 18 April 1985, lot 501; M.Z. Gerson Collection; W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 1022 [from M.Z.G. September 1985].

6 struck