British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

19th Century Tokens, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, Bristol, Bristol Brass & Copper Co, Penny, 1811, 18.79g/12h (W 436), Halfpenny, 1811, 9.84g/12h (W 451); Bristol Commercial Token Bank Co, Shilling, 1811, 4.27g/12h (D Somerset 26), Sixpence, 1811, 2.00g/12h (D 55); Edward Bryan, Shilling, 1811, 4.15g/12h (D 21); Samuel Guppy, Pennies, 1811 (3), 18.29g/12h (W 461), 18.26g/12h (W 493a), 17.15g/12h (W 507a), Halfpence (4), 1811 (3), 9.27g/12h (W 471a), 8.06g/12h (W 479), 8.60g/12h (W 484), 1812, 9.97g/12h (W 513), Farthing, 1811, 4.06g/12h (W 490); Niblock & Latham, Shilling, 1811, 4.03g/12h (D 47), Sixpence, 1811, 2.07g/12h (D 63) [15]. D 55 extremely fine, D 26, 47 and 63 very fine, others generally fine, some better £120-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of British Tokens formed by John Roberts-Lewis.

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Provenance: D 26 T. McGoldrick Collection, Spink Auction 7, 5 December 1979, lot 334 (part) [from Spink July 1974], M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 53, 19 June 1986, lot 344 (part), bt S.E. Schwer August 1986; W 436, 451, 471a and 490 bt S.E. Schwer; W 513 bt Spink