Middlesex

Sale 58    8–10 Jul 1998   Dallas Brooks Hall   Melbourne

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Lot 696    18TH CENTURY COPPER TOKENS    Middlesex

Estimate $500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $740

SPENCE'S FARTHINGS, bust of T. Spence left/Britannia (D&H 1077); man riding on a bull with an ass's head (D&H 1078 (illustrated)), Odd Fellows (D&H 1079); pig trampling crown, crozier etc., (D&H 1081) (illustrated), Adam & Eve/Britannia (D&H 1084); man on bull with ass's head (D&H 1085); Odd Fellows (D&H 1086 (2, one with striking crack); padlock (D&H 1087 (illustrated)); pig (D&H 1088 worn); slave kneeling (D&H 1089) (2) (illustrated). 1085 very fine, 1088 fine otherwise good extremely fine-uncirculated patinated, some hints of mint red. (12)

1085 ex S.V. Hagley Collection, 1079, 1086 from R.G. Gladdle (with cracked flan), 1088 acquired in 1960's, 1089 from Baldwin in 1973, all others from Spink 1973 (1), 1975 (6).

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