Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection

18th Century Tokens, Somerset, Bath, Payne & Turner, Lutwyche’s Penny, crowned bust of Alfred the Great right, rev. tower and wall, edge we promise to pay the bearer one penny, 19.56g/6h (DH 7). Light surface metal flaws, otherwise about extremely fine and extremely rare, the only specimen seen by the cataloguer in commerce £500-1,000

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

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Provenance: D.L. Spence Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 67A, 29 September 2005, lot 1616 [from Spink 1976].

Missing from all the important collections auctioned in recent years, including Hamer, Lincoln, Waite-Sanderson, Longman, Jan, Young and Noble