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Lot 60 18TH CENTURY COPPER TOKENS Cambridgeshire
Estimate $500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $640
MACCLESFIELD, Roe & Co. beehive over R.&Co., cypher/female seated left holding cogwheel (D&H 10,11,12,13,14) bust of Charles Roe right/similar reverse but Macclesfield added, 1790 (D&H 16,17,20,21 (2), 23,24,25,26,27,) 1791 (D&H 28 (2), 30,31,32,33,34,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,44,45,47,48,49,49 var. obverse as 51,50,52,53,55), 1792 (D&H 57), counterfeits (61, 61b, 62b, 65a, 67, 67b, 72a, b(2), c(3), 73,76, 76b, 78(2), 78a, 80, 81). Mostly very fine-nearly uncirculated, a comprehensive run of this large issue, missing only the rarities. (61)
12 from Gothic in June 1983, 17 (ex J. Bobbe in 1994, 27,34,48,72a ex J.R. Farnell Collection, 80 ex W.G. Wright Collection, 21,61, 62b, 78a from R. Gladdle (and ex T.A. Jan Collection) 28,36,40,42, 67b, 72,73 (also ex O.P. Eckland Collection) and 76 from Myles Gerson Collection, balance (42 pieces) from Glendinings Sale in 1964.
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