British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books including the David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Books

Central London, Bow Street, Charles James, Penny, lion couchant, holding shield, rev. royal penny, sun, crown and oak-sprig, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 24.39g/12h (DH 31). Usual light die cracks on reverse, otherwise about extremely fine and very rare £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection.

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Provenance: S.H. Hamer Collection, Glendining Auction, 26-8 November 1930, lot 123 (part); W. Waite-Sanderson Collection, Glendining Auction, 16-17 November 1944, lot 72 (part); bt W. Anderson January 1996.

About 20 struck