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

Thomas Spence series, Mule Halfpence (6), Tree of Liberty, revs. noted advocates, etc, 12.39g/6h (DH 882), Britannia (3), spence edge, 10.60g/11h (DH 883), edge grained, 8.97g/6h (DH 883a), edge plain, 10.58g/11h (DH 883b), caduceus, spence edge, 12.69g/6h (DH 884), three armed citizens, edge grained, 9.12g/5h (DH 885a) [6]. DH 883a very fine but off-centre, very rare, others about extremely fine and better, DH 882 harshly lacquered, DH 885a with centres weakly struck up £250-300

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

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Provenance: DH 882 J.R. Farnell Sr Collection, Part I, Sotheby Parke Bernet Auction (New York), 8 December 1981, lot 169 (part), P.C. Deane Collection, bt J.A. Bobbe December 1987 [from P.C.D. October 1983]; DH 883 bt J.A. Bobbe December 1987; DH 883a F.S. Cokayne Collection, bt A. Davisson April 1998; DH 883b bt P. Flanagan February 1994; *DH 884 bt F. Seymour September 1994; DH 885a F.W. Lincoln ‘No. 1’ Collection, F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Lincoln April 1934], bt A. Davisson April 1998