A DISTINGUISHED CABINET OF BRITISH TOKENS, THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN


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LONDON, Wood Street, Skidmore’s London and Westminster series, Penny, 1797, type 5, Barbers’ Hall, rev. from the same die as previous, edge I PROMISE TO PAY ON DEMAND THE BEARER ONE PENNY, 23.98g/11h (DH 95). Extremely fine with original colour, reverse diffused


£80-100 Provenance: W.L. Gantz Collection, Glendining Auction, 23-7 June 1941, lot 1675 (part)


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LONDON, Denton’s ‘Swan’ Penny, 1797, swan with partly expanded wings swimming left, rev. arms of the county of Middlesex, edge I PROMISE TO PAY ON DEMAND THE BEARER ONE PENNY, 23.94g/6h (DH 174). Extremely fine with much original colour, very rare


£600-800 Provenance: W.L. Gantz Collection, Glendining Auction, 23-7 June 1941, lot 1674 (part)


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LONDON, Skidmore’s British Penny, 1797, Britannia seated right, rev. TWR cypher, date on tablet below, edge I PROMISE TO PAY ON DEMAND THE BEARER ONE PENNY, 23.84g/6h (DH 6). Extremely fine, obverse with considerable original colour and most attractive, reverse diffused and with area of discolouration at 8 o’clock, very rare


£400-500 Provenance: W.L. Gantz Collection, Glendining Auction, 23-7 June 1941, lot 1670 (part)


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LONDON, Skidmore’s British Penny, 1797, bust of George III right within ornamental border, rev. TG cypher, palm branches below, edge I PROMISE TO PAY ON DEMAND THE BEARER ONE PENNY, 26.31g/10h (DH 191). Very fine and extremely rare; believed only 8 specimens known


£400-500


Provenance: West Collection; S.H. Hamer Collection, Glendining Auction, 26-8 November 1930, lot 247; W.L. Gantz Collection, Glendining Auction, 23-7 June 1941, lot 1680 (part)


305


LONDON, Skidmore’s Penny for the Centenary of the Revolution, bust of William III within border, rev. lion rampant supporting arms, edge plain, 22.39g/6h (DH 199; Woolf 75:5; BHM 285). Spot behind bust, otherwise extremely fine with a hint of original colour


£100-150 Provenance: W.L. Gantz Collection, Glendining Auction, 23-7 June 1941, lot 1680 (part) All lots are illustrated on our website www.dnw.co.uk


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