Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection

Numismatists Tokens and Ephemera, YORKSHIRE, Halifax, Samuel Hamer, a George III Penny [1806-7] and a Birmingham, Workhouse, Penny, 1813, obvs. countermarked bradford workhouse (as W 411), and additionally s.h. hamer halifax 1906 in 3 lines, 17.78g/6h, 27.99g/6h (cf. DNW 134, 353) [2]. Coins worn, counterstamps fine to very fine £60-£80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection.

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Provenance: First sold with envelope inscribed ‘countermarked by me as per date impressed, S.H.H.’, bt S.E. Schwer 1981; second bt S.E. Schwer December 1980.

Hamer exhibited the two steel punches that had been used to countermark the 19th century Bradford Workhouse issues to the British Numismatic Society on 30 November 1906. He used these, and other punches, on subsequent occasions to make deliberate concoctions, both for vanity and personal gain