Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection

18th Century Tokens, Warwickshire, Warwick, The Greatheed Petition to Dismiss the King’s Ministers, 1797, a copper medal, unsigned, cart under gallows from which three men are hanging, the end of three logger heads, rev. as if from newgate cells three felons led, and on the new drop tyd, till dead, dead, dead, 37mm, 20.44g/12h (DH 11; BHM 445). Usual die flaw on obverse, the hanging men well struck up, extremely fine and extremely rare
£800-1,000

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

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Provenance: F. Willis Collection, Glendining Auction, 13 May 1981, lot 228 [from Baldwin 1954]; M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part II, Spink Auction 58, 30 April 1987, lot 262 [from S.E. Schwer]