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Estimate $300
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CONVICT/TRANSPORTED TOKEN, engraved on thin copper disc (31mm), standing figure of man smoking pipe Charles Frime around, Innocant in exerque/Charles Frime cast for 7 years to America Novr 2, two doves in field, 1783 below. The same engraved side by side and in reverse on a rectangular copper plate (74 x 46mm) as an engraved woodblock plate. The token crinkled at right edge otherwise very fine, the plate extremely fine, an historically interesting felon's token and probably unique.
Ex Spink Sale 35 (lot 421).
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