British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes

19th Century Tokens, Not Local: Irish, Halfpenny, 1806, male bust right with short hair, rev. crowned harp, edge centre-grained, 8.90g/11h (W 2018, this piece, edge type not noted). Overstruck on a Halfpenny of James Hilles [W 1820], of which traces of the undertype remain, surface metal fault between n and d of ireland, virtually as struck with brilliant fields, exceptionally rare if not UNIQUE £500-£1,000

‘Dublinia’ Collection, Whyte’s Auction (Dublin), 21 February 1997, lot 279, where the cataloguer suggested that the piece is a pattern