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

National series: Tokens, Lutwyche’s Princess of Wales Halfpence, 1795 (9), all bust three-quarters left types, with ear-ring (2), four pearls, edge grained, 8.39g/6h (DH 979), five pearls, edge plain, 9.40g/6h (DH 980); no ear-ring (7), six pearls, edge grained, 10.10g/12h (DH 977), edge plain, 9.76g/12h (DH 977a), four pearls (5), birmingham edge, 9.12g/6h (DH 981), dublin edge, 9.36g/6h (DH 981a), liverpool edge, 9.59g/6h (DH 981c), edge grained, 8.61g/6h (DH 981d), edge plain, 6.78g/6h (DH 981e); mule Halfpence (2), revs. Prince’s plumes, edge plain, 7.99g/6h (DH 982c), clasped hands, 5.83g/6h (DH 983); Lutwyche’s Duke of York Halfpence (8), all bust right types, revs. small ship (4), lancaster edge, 9.37g/6h (DH 985), dublin edge, 9.36g/6h (DH 985a), london edge, 9.12g/6h (DH 985b), edge plain, 9.44g/6h (DH 985c); large ship (4), wooden walls, etc, dublin edge, 8.96g/6h (DH 986), guard & glory, etc (3), dublin edge, 9.12g/6h (DH 987), suffolk-bath edge, 9.39g/6h (DH 987a), edge plain, 6.51g/6h (DH 987d); mule Halfpence (5), bust right, no stop after york (2), revs. female seated with drill and cog-wheel, edge plain, 6.90g/6h (DH 989; Cobwright F0010/H0015), Britannia, 6.58g/6h (DH 990; Cobwright F0010/R0010), stop after york (3), revs. female seated with drill and cog-wheel, 1790, 6.65g/6h (DH 991), 1794, lancaster edge, 8.91g/6h (DH 992), Hibernia seated left, 6.14g/6h (DH 993) [24]. DH 981d, 985 and 985a extremely fine, others in varied state, several very rare, especially the last £150-2000

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

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Provenance: DH 977, 981c and 985 bt M.Z. Gerson April 1978; DH 977a and 991 T. Hill Collection, P.C. Deane Collection [from Seaby], W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty, Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 645 (part), bt R. Gladdle November 1998; DH 979 bt 1978; DH 980 bt M.Z. Gerson November 1981; DH 981 bt J. Spingarn April 1997; DH 981a bt P. Flanagan March 1981; DH 981d bt J.A. Bobbe July 1982; DH 981e bt S. Cordova June 1988; DH 982c bt S. Cordova September 1989; DH 983 and 987 bt J. Spingarn December 2000; DH 985a bt R. Gladdle May 1994; DH 985b bt P. Flanagan June 1985; DH 985c bt W. McKivor August 2004; DH 986 bt D.W. Loring October 1978; DH 987a, 990 and 992 bt R. Gladdle September 1986; DH 987d bt S. Cordova May 1990; DH 989 bt S. Cordova May 1992; * DH 993 bt J. Spingarn May 1997