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Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection

David Brandon Griffiths

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№ 52

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5 October 2011

Hammer Price:
£400

Cheshire, Macclesfield, Roe & Co, Westwood’s Penny, 1790, bust of Charles Roe right, rev. seated figure of Genius holding drill and cog-wheel, edge plain, 26.36g/6h (DH 3). Tiny nick on Roe’s shoulder, otherwise brilliant and practically as struck, bronzed, rare £300-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection.

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Provenance: W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 55 [from Spink 1976]; J. Spingarn Collection FPL (12); J. Spingarn Collection, DNW Auction 52, 28-9 November 2001, lot 1087