Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

Transportation token: a George III Penny, 1797, rev. planed flat and stipple-engraved Charles Chapman, Aged 19 yrs, Febury (sic) 11, 1829. Obverse with deliberate pitting, reverse about very fine £200-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Engraved Coins formed by the late Richard Law.

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Provenance: Bt in Wakefield August 2003.

Charles Chapman was convicted at Worcester Assizes on 7 March 1829 and sentenced to transportation for life. He sailed on the Katherine Stewart Forbes, October 1829, arriving in New South Wales on 18 February 1830