The R C Bell Collection of British Trade Tokens

18th Century, Middlesex, I. Swainson, Halfpenny, bust left, reverse female personifying Health dropping herbs into a brick still (DH 907). Minor surface marks in reverse field, otherwise virtually extremely fine and bronzed, extremely rare (£150-200)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The R C Bell Collection of British Trade Tokens.

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Bell, TT p.114.

18 struck. Isaac Swainson (d.1812), proprietor of the Velnos Vegetable Syrup Warehouse, 21 Frith Street, Soho