Buckinghamshire, Slough, William Till, Halfpenny, 1794, in brass, from the same dies as previous, edge plain, 8.45g/12h (DH 23, not recorded in brass; Preston-Morley 1044, this piece). From lightly rusted dies, extremely fine and toned, of the highest rarity; believed only one other specimen known in this metal £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection.

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Provenance: SCMB November 1976 (M25); P.J. Preston-Morley Collection, DNW Auction 52, 28-9 November 2001, lot 1044; R.S. Brown Jr Collection, Part I, DNW Auction T7, 7 October 2009, lot 30.

Exhibition: British Numismatic Society, 22 April 1980