Auction Catalogue

16 March 2006

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Important British Trade Tokens

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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Lot

№ 197

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16 March 2006

Hammer Price:
£180

Soho, Robert Orchard, Prattent’s mule Halfpence (3), arms, revs. bust of William III right, 10.10g/6h (DH 411), hs & co cypher in wreath, 8.40g/6h (DH 412), Hope holding quadrant, 9.48g/6h (DH 413) [3]. All with characteristic flaw in die under e of halfpenny and first with light flaws in reverse field, otherwise extremely fine and patinated, rare (£250-300)

Provenance:
D.L. Spence Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 67A, 29 September 2005, lot 1432, additionally:
*DH 411 Coin Galleries Mailbid Sale, 10 November 1999 (1968)
DH 412 Fawcett/Litman Collection
DH 413 W. Longman Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 March 1958, lot 168 (part) [from Baldwin July 1912], Fawcett/Litman Collection