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

Thomas Spence series, Mule Halfpence (5), from the same obv. die as previous, revs. Sessions House, Old Bailey, 10.36g/6h (DH 868), snail on river-bank, 10.38g/7h (DH 869), boys at turnstile, 10.32g/6h (DH 871), three fleurs-de-lis (2), spence edge, 12.56g/12h (DH 872), skidmore edge, 11.61g/12h (DH 872a) [5]. DH 868 with characteristic weakness, otherwise virtually as struck with full original colour, DH 872a about very fine, others about extremely fine or better, last two very rare £300-400

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

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Provenance: DH *868 and 872 bt W. Anderson January 1996; DH 869 and 871 bt A. Davisson May 1992; DH 872a S.H. Hamer Collection, Glendining Auction, 26-8 November 1930, lot 226 (part); W. Waite-Sanderson Collection, Glendining Auction, 16-17 November 1944, lot 144 (part), F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Baldwin December 1944], bt A. Davisson April 1998