Tickets and Passes, Important British Trade Tokens, Coin Weights

Gloucester, Kempson’s City Penny, 1797, in silver, arms, rev. St Bartholomew’s Hospital, edge plain, 19.38g/6h (DH 11). Tiny rim nick on obverse and two spots in reverse field, otherwise extremely fine and practically as struck with rainbow tone, extremely rare (£600-800)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Eighteenth Century Tokens from a Private Collection.

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Provenance:
The Property of a Gentleman, Spink Auction 96, 31 March 1993, lot 314
W.J. Noble Collection, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 118