18th Century Tokens from the Joel Spingarn Collection

Joel Spingarn

Mr Spingarn, a founder member of the thriving Conder Token Collectors' Club, started his collection in the early 1990s. Through a programme of select buying from a number of sources, principally in the USA, and always with an eye on the very best quality, he lovingly assembled a collection of 522 pieces. Some of these were sold privately, through an illustrated price list, earlier this summer; the balance offers a new opportunity for token collectors on both sides of the Atlantic to acquire high-grade material. Here are some of the classic rarities of the series, including the Longman/Noble Hancock's 'Sir Original' halfpenny (lot 1271), Edward Percy's Coventry pennies (lots 1264-5), the Lincoln/Cokayne Mendoza and Ward penny (lot 1116), the Cokayne/Jan Noble 'Greatheads' penny (lot 1255) and Samuel Hamer's 'Loggerheads' penny (lot 1256).