British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes

19th Century Tokens, STAFFORDSHIRE, Bilston, Samuel Fereday, Twopence, 1811, view of Priestfield furnaces, rev. value, edge grained, 36.50g/12h (W 43). Some surface marks, otherwise good very fine with underlying bloom, very rare; the best specimen of this variant to appear at any auction in recent decades £400-£500

W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty, Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 1899 [from Spink 1973]; DNW Auction T8, 6 October 2010, lot 948; D. Kabel Collection, Baldwin Auction 72, 4 October 2011, lot 317