Middlesex [Greater Metropolitan area], Hackney, David Rebello, Skidmore’s mule Penny, church, rev. cap of Liberty on pole, sheffield constitutional society, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 23.68g/6h (DH 18a). Minor rim fault on reverse at 12 o’clock, otherwise extremely fine and patinated, extremely rare £500-600

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

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Provenance: R.S. Brown Jr Collection, Part II, DNW Auction T8, 6 October 2010, lot 496 [from A. Davisson July 1995].

The edge inscription is as stated in DH, not as rendered in the 1990 update and in Whitmore’s TCC