British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Bath, Grapes Tavern, copper Twopence, rev. value, ep, 23mm, 4.18g/12h (SPHT 54; WC p.318); Green Park Tavern, J[ames] Fry, brass Three-Halfpence, rev. value, eg, 22.5mm, 5.25g/12h (SPHT 58); Greyhound Inn, uniface brass, eg, 23mm, 3.84g (SPHT 59); Grosvenor Brewery, brass Three-Halfpence, rev. value, eg, 26mm, 6.17g/12h (SPHT 61); Hop Pole, uniface brass, ep, 20mm, 1.87g (SPHT 68a; WC p.320) [5]. Third fine, others about very fine but second with cuts in reverse rim (£90-120)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tokens from the Collection formed by the late Barry Greenaway.

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Provenance:
*First bt J.D. Hooper
Second bt J.P.R. King September 1987
Fourth bt Cole August 1984
Fifth bt Robinson July 1993.

Grapes Tavern, 14 Westgate Street; Green Park Tavern, Lower Bristol road, proprietor James Fry 1874-81; Greyhound Inn, 18 Claverton buildings, Widcombe; Grosvenor Brewery, formerly the Folly and the Cremorne, Hampton row, Bathwick, owned by the Great Western Railway, renamed in 1892; Hop Pole, 7 Albion buildings, Upper Bristol road