18th Century British Trade Tokens

Worcestershire, Kidderminster, Skidmore’s mule Halfpenny, woolpack and palm branches, rev. conjoined heads of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette right, edge grained, 9.27g/7h (DH 24). Extremely fine with original colour, extremely rare
£200-250

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

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Provenance: Bt J. Spingarn April 1997.

The Spingarn envelope with the coin, apart from attempting to attach a Davis/Hamer pedigree to it, refers to it being the Jan 162/Gerson specimen, which is incorrect; that token subsequently appeared in the Noble collection in 1998 (lot 1080)