Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

Sussex, Steyning, Samuel Gates and John Cheesman, ‘Morgan’s’ Shilling, 1811, legend, reads gates’s, rev. bee-hive and bees within wreath, edge grained, 3.77g/12h (KR 306; D 18, the plate coin; Wager p.53). About very fine, extremely rare
£200-£260

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of 19th Century Tokens formed by John Akins.

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Provenance: D. Pennock Collection, DNW Auction 140, 15-16 March 2017, lot 957 [from S.H. Monks March 2013].

While it is evident that Dalton saw this piece at the time of compiling his catalogue, there can be no way of knowing whether or not he owned it at one time. In all probability it was in the Cokayne cabinet