Auction Catalogue

6 October 2010

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

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 293 x

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£280

Central London, High Holborn, Skidmore’s mule Halfpenny, from the same obv. die as previous, rev. bust of George III right, edge skidmore holborn london, 12.54g/6h (DH 499). Virtually as struck with reflective red-brown fields, most attractive and extremely 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: M.Z. Gerson Collection [from Baldwin April 1982]; W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty, Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 537; J. Spingarn Collection FPL (184); bt J.S. February 2001