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

№ 351 x

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£290

Central London, West Smithfield, Thomas Prattent, Halfpenny, 1796, from the same dies as previous, edge payable at the warehouse liverpool, 10.06g/6h (DH 459b). Struck over a Lutwyche Halfpenny, 1793 [DH North Wales 2b], extremely fine with much original colour, very rare
£200-250

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

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Provenance: T. Bliss Collection; W. Longman Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 March 1958, lot 171 (part) [from R. Dalton May 1915]; Davissons Mailbid Sale 9, 9 October 1997 (275); W. Anderson Collection, Davissons Mailbid Sale 13, 25 April 2000 (642).

Unfortunately the Longman ticket which survived with the token until 1997 is not now present