Auction Catalogue

6 October 2010

Starting at 10:00 AM

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

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 755

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£700

18th Century Tokens, Buckinghamshire, Slough, John Peckham, Proof Halfpenny, 1795, in silver, arms of the Peckham family, rev. phoenix, edge plain, 13.61g/12h (DH 28; Preston-Morley 1053). Brilliant and virtually as struck, dark tone, extremely rare £400-500

Only two other specimens recorded as having been sold at auction in the last 20 years