British Tokens

18th Century Tokens, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, Northampton, ‘George Jobson’, Morgan’s Halfpence, 1794 (2), 13.21g/6h (DH 1a), lancaster edge, 9.11g/12h (DH 1); WARWICKSHIRE, Birmingham, Henry Hickman, Halfpenny, 1792, 11.63g/6h (DH 144), Peter Kempson, Penny, 1796, 25.95g/12h (DH 20), Workhouse, Gimblett’s ‘Two Shillings’, 1788, plated, 19.15g/12h (DH 2); together with other 18th century tokens (27), viz. Oxfordshire DH 1, Shropshire (6), DH Warwickshire 336, 387, 409, 416, 430, 446b, Staffordshire (4), DH 10, 11, 13, 14, Warwickshire (15), DH 50, 71a, 91, 128, 151, 153, 172, 200, 218, 219, 220, 231, 235, 249, 482, Worcestershire DH 7 [32]. First good fine, others described very fine and better, remainder in varied state £200-300

Provenance: First two M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part II, Spink Auction 58, 30 April 1987, lot 214; third and fourth Spalding Gentleman’s Society Collection, Spink Auction 58, 30 April 1987, lot 152 (part); fifth P.C. Cruttwell Collection, Spink Auction 63, 28-9 March 1988, lot 631 (part) [from Baldwin November 1984]