18th Century Tokens from the Dr Allen Bennett Collection

Leicestershire, Elmsthorpe, Richard Fowke, Kempson’s Trial Halfpenny, 1800, in white metal, ruins of church, rev. wheatsheaf, plough and harrow, exergue without legend, edge plain, 11.41g/12h (DH 1). Surface marks in reverse field, otherwise about extremely fine and of the highest rarity; the first specimen to appear in a public auction since 1944 £1,000-1,500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, 18th Century Tokens from the Dr Allen Bennett Collection.

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Provenance: Bt J.A. Bobbe March 2007.

3 struck. One specimen is in the British Museum; a ‘very fine’ example was in the Davis and Hamer collections and may be the same unprovenanced coin in the Waite-Sanderson collection