British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

18th Century Tokens, SUSSEX, Rye, G. Bennett, Skidmore’s Halfpenny, 1796, sugar loaves, chest and scales, rev. gb cypher, edge grained over skidmore holborn london, 12.45g/7h (DH 36). Virtually as struck with attractive glossy surfaces, very rare
£300-400

Provenance: R.S. Brown Jr Collection, Part III, DNW Auction T10, 5 October 2011, lot 764 [from J.A. Bobbe July 1992].

36 struck