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

National series: Tokens, Lutwyche’s Prince of Wales Halfpence (15), viz. bust three-quarters right, plumes below (2), brighton edge, 9.86g/6h (DH 952), lancaster edge, 9.39g/6h (DH 952a); bust three-quarters right, value below (2), revs. arms and supporters, dublin edge, 8.92g/6h (DH 953a), Prince’s plumes, lancaster edge, 9.62g/6h (DH 961); bust right types (11), stop after wales (5), line of forehead to e (3), revs. arms and supporters, lancaster edge, 9.57g/6h (DH 954), Prince’s plumes, 1794 (2), w gye’s edge, 9.67g/6h (DH 967), lancaster edge, 9.13g/6h (DH 967b); line of forehead between n and c (2), revs. arms and supporters, lancaster edge, 9.21g/6h (DH 955), Prince’s plumes, lancaster edge, 8.94g/6h (DH 966); no stop after wales (6), line of forehead between n and c (2), lancaster edge, 9.23g/6h (DH 962), london edge, 9.01g/6h (DH 962a), line of forehead to c (4), revs. Prince’s plumes, london edge (2), 9.31g/12h (DH 963), 8.90g/12h (DH 964a), dublin edge, 9.94g/6h (DH 964), edge plain, 9.42g/6h (DH 963b); mule Halfpence (2), revs. bust of John of Gaunt, lancaster edge, 9.08g/6h (DH 957), hands holding crowned triangle, edge grained, 7.96g/6h (DH 960); Lutwyche’s Farthings (3), bust left, revs. ich dien, edge grained, 3.16g/6h (DH 1140), edge plain (2), 3.53g/6h (DH 1140a), 3.13g/6h (DH 1141); Lutwyche’s Prince and Princess of Wales Halfpence (2), revs. ship, guard & glory, etc, edge grained, 9.52g/6h (DH 945a), ship, wooden walls, etc, anglesey edge, 9.24g/6h (DH 946) [22]. DH 953a, 954, 962a, 963b and 1140 extremely fine, mostly with original colour, DH 946, 964, 966 and 967b about fine, others generally very fine, some better, a few rare £140-180

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

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Provenance: DH 945a and 957 bt M.Z. Gerson April 1978; DH 946 bt J. Spingarn December 2000; DH 952 bt B. Sailor December 1979; DH 952a bt M.Z. Gerson July 1979; DH 953a bt R. Gladdle March 1994; *DH 954 bt J.A. Bobbe August 1997; DH 955 bt R. Gladdle September 1986; DH 960 M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 53, 19 June 1986, lot 287 (part), bt R. Gladdle August 1986; DH 961 bt M.Z. Gerson May 1979; DH 963 and 1140a bt M.Z. Gerson November 1981; DH 962 and 963b bt W. Noyes May 1986; DH 962a bt P. Flanagan April 1981; DH 964 bt A. Davisson 1997; DH 964a bt P. Flanagan June 1985; DH 966 bt S. Cordova February 1991; DH 967 bt S. Cordova January 1973; DH 967b bt P. Flanagan April 1980; DH 1140 bt P. Flanagan April 1982; DH 1141 bt J. Spingarn March 1997