The Collection of British Tokens formed by the late Sven Gahlin

Co Durham, South Shields, Prattent’s Halfpenny, 1796, arms, rev. anchor and cable, edge engrailed, 9.28g/12h (DH 8). About extremely fine, rare £120-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of British Tokens formed by the late Sven Gahlin.

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Provenance: SCMB November 1974; M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 53, 19 June 1986, lot 37; bt R. Gladdle November 1987.

The pre-1987 provenance for this coin has also been associated, in error, with the similar piece in the R.S. Brown collection (Part I, lot 113), which is clearly a different specimen