18th Century British Trade Tokens

Warwickshire, Warwick, The Greatheed Petition to Dismiss the King’s Ministers, 1797, a white metal medal, unsigned, three men in cart exhorting the crowds on either side, gallows above, rev. from the same die as previous, 34mm, 13.69g/12h (DH 10; BHM 444). About very fine and extremely 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: T.A. Jan Collection, Part II, Spink Auction 35, 11 April 1984, lot 83 [from Baldwin 1965]; W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 927; bt R. Gladdle November 1998