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

18th Century Tokens, Shropshire, Coalbrook Dale, Reynolds & Co, Halfpenny, 1792, ship sailing under bridge, extended legend, rev. man working at inclined plane, edge payable at coalbrook-dale and ketley, 13.20g/6h (DH 7). Reverse edge knock at 2 o’clock, otherwise fine, extremely rare £200-300

Provenance: Bt J. Whitmore November 2001.

Absent from all the major collections of tokens sold at auction since 1930; the only other specimen readily traced by the cataloguer was S.H. Hamer’s (Sale, lot 289, ex W.J. Davis)