18th Century British Trade Tokens

Warwickshire, Warwick, The Greatheed Petition to Dismiss the King’s Ministers, 1797, a copper medal, unsigned, three men in cart exhorting the crowds on either side, gallows above, rev. as if from temple bar some head was cut, and on rebelling trunk the face was put, 36mm, 20.21g/12h (DH 7; BHM 444). Metal fault at 6 o’clock, a scratch under wrong and minor surface marks on reverse, otherwise good very fine, very rare £500-700

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

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Provenance: F. Willis Collection, Glendining Auction, 13 May 1981, lot 227; bt J. Spingarn January 1998