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19th Century, Aylesbury, Aylesbury Co-operative Society Ltd, brass checks (2), for 20 Shillings, rev. £1 in wreath, edge grained, 22mm, 2.77g/12h, and 10 Shillings, rev. half sovn in wreath, edge grained, 19mm, 2.02g/12h, both by Ardill, Leeds; bracteate iron checks (7), for 5 Shillings, 31mm, 1.76g (Rains –); 2 Shillings, 30mm, 1.73g; Shilling, 29mm, 1.60g (Rains –); Sixpence, 28mm, 1.18g (Rains –); Threepence, 26mm, 1.21g; Penny, 24mm, 1.00g; Halfpenny, 22mm, 0.86g (Rains –); blue plastic Two Shillings check, rev. mutuality club, 28mm, 1.35g/12h (Rains –); octagonal brass checks (2), for Pint Milk, value both sides, 26mm, 4.60g/12h, and Half Pint Milk, similar, 23mm, 3.27g/12h; aluminium checks (2), for 2lb loaf, Half Qrtn. Plain Flour, value both sides, 29mm, 2.08g/12h, and Half Qtrn. S[elf] R[aising] Flour, similar, 22mm, 0.98g/12h (Rains –); Vale of Aylesbury Industrial Co-operative Society, a brass Half-Sovereign check, value, rev. plain, edge grained, 19mm, 2.56g [15]. Very fine to extremely fine, some better; an excellent group, including several not in the series’ standard catalogue (£60-80)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Tokens.

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Provenance:
Half Pint Milk bt Eden Coins March 1994.
Vale of Aylesbury bt A Judd October 1991.
All others Glendining Auction, 3 February 1988, lot 155 (part).

Aylesbury Co-operative Society Ltd, established 1889