The R C Bell Collection of British Trade Tokens

19th Century, Yorkshire, Keighley, Overseers, Union Copper Co, Birmingham Penny, 1812, countermarked KEIGHLEY on both sides (D. 51 on Warwickshire 76; Scott 40.3A; Bell, CCC p.111, variety a); Union Copper Co, Penny, 1812, countermarked KEIGHLEY and GR (D. 52 on Warwickshire 74; Scott 40.3B; Bell variety b); Birmingham and Neath, Penny, 1811, and Union Copper Co, Penny, 1812, both countermarked KEIGHLEY and JM (D. 53 on Warwickshire 49, 76; Scott 40.3C; Bell variety c); Union Copper Co, Penny, 1812, countermarked KEIGHLEY, 364 and four cancellation marks (D. 51 variety on Warwickshire 66; Scott 40.3A variety; Bell variety e); Sheffield, Shaw, Jobson & Co (Roscoe Place), Halfpenny, 1812, obverse countermarked KEIGHLEY (D. – on Yorkshire 151; Scott 40.3E; Bell –); Hull, J.K. Picard, Penny, 1812, with crude KEIGHLEY indented countermark both sides (D – on Yorkshire 82; Scott –). [7]. Sheffield Halfpenny with severe flan crack but very fine and rare, others generally fine, second D.53 better, an interesting group of these pieces (£40-60)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The R C Bell Collection of British Trade Tokens.

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D. 52 = Bell, CCC p.112; D. 53 on Warwick 49 = Bell, CCC p.112; D. 51 variety = Bell, CCC p.113 (nos.275-6); last = Bell, CCC p.112 (nos. 271-2).

Sheffield Halfpenny only illustrated; for another specimen, see Sheppard, in YNS Transactions III, p.50 [1927]. The status of the countermark on the last piece is uncertain; perhaps it is a contemporary blacksmith’s copy or forgery