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Sold on 6 July 2005

1 part

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19th Century Tokens formed by David Litrenta

Dr David Edward Litrenta

Lot

№ 950

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6 July 2005

Hammer Price:
£170

Ireland, Galway, Ballyglunin Estate, Martin Blake, copper truck tickets (6), for Threepence, Fourpence, Sixpence (2), Eightpence (2), all 30mm (D & W 337/26-9); Menlough Castle, Sixpence, 1819, 28mm (Davis 1; D & W 337/30) [7]. Last about fine, others very fine (£80-100)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, 19th Century Tokens formed by David Litrenta.

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Provenance:
Last P.J. Downie Auction 27, December 1965, lot 78, W.J. Noble Collection, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 1952 (part).

Martin Joseph Blake (1790-1861), scion of a family of Galway merchant bankers and proprietor of the Ballyglunin Estate