The Collection of British Tokens formed by John Rose


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rev. THE CELEBRATED VENTRILOQUIST 1796 in 4 lines, edge plain, 11.34g/6h (DH 252b). Extremely fine, obverse with considerable original colour, most attractive and very rare with this edge


£300-£400


Provenance: Spink Auction 35, 11 April 1984, lot 351 LONDON, Clerkenwell, Joseph Askins, Jacobs’ Halfpenny, 1796, man standing with wooden leg, MR JOSEPH ASKINS around,


303


PAY ON DEMAND THE BEARER ONE PENNY, 26.37g/6h (DH 16). Usual rim flaws, extremely fine with original colour, rare £150-£200 304


Provenance: Spink Auction 51, 16 April 1986, lot 400 (part) LONDON, Clerkenwell, Thomas Gorton, Skidmore’s Penny, 1797, fender and fire-irons, rev. TG cypher, edge I PROMISE TO


LONDON, Cornhill, Richardson, Goodluck & Co, Halfpenny, 1795, 10.87g/6h (DH 468); Covent Garden, Thomas Dodd, Halfpenny, 7.91g/6h (DH 300); Great Portland Street, Joseph Moore, Halfpenny, 1795, 11.25g/12h (DH 389); High Holborn, Christopher Ibberson, Halfpenny, 10.20g/6h (DH 342, bronzed); Jermyn Street, John Carter, Halfpence, 1795 (2), 7.19g/12h (DH 275), 7.40g/6h (DH 276) [6]. DH 276 good very fine but with surface metal fault, others about extremely fine and better, some with original colour


£100-£150


Provenance: DH 275 bt Spink 1975; DH 276 bt Seaby 1972; DH 300 bt A.J. Organ 1974; DH 342 bt Stewart Ward 1971; DH 389 bt Seaby 1971; DH 468 bt J. Whitmore 1971


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Provenance: F.S. Cokayne Collection; SNC February 2005 (TT 3300); bt S.H. Monks 2006 LONDON, Cornhill, Richardson, Goodluck & Co, Proof Halfpenny, 1795, in silver, Bluecoat boy preparing to draw


from a lottery wheel, cornucopia of money dividing date, rev. legend, edge plain, 13.61g/6h (DH 470). Struck out of collar on a large flan, trifling marks, otherwise extremely fine and dark-toned, very rare


£600-£800 306


Provenance: DH 480 bt Cutler Street Market 1975; DH 522a bt Seaby 1975; DH 1074 bt A. Judd 1982 LONDON, High Holborn, John Skidmore, Halfpenny, 1795, 9.52g/6h (DH 480), Farthing, 1795, edge grained,


£80-£100


3.89g/12h (DH 1074); Skidmore’s mule Halfpenny, St Paul’s Covent Garden, rev. church ruins, 9.31g/6h (DH 522a) [3]. About extremely fine and better, a little original colour


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grained, 11.49g/6h (DH 480). Virtually as struck with steel-blue toning, of the highest rarity; perhaps only one other specimen available to commerce which is not as fine


£500-£700 www.dnw.co.uk all lots are illustrated on our website and are subject to buyers’ premium at 24% (+VAT where applicable)


Provenance: Mark Rasmussen FPL 8, Summer 2005 (82); R.S. Bole Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 69A, 16 March 2006, lot 186 LONDON, High Holborn, John Skidmore, Proof Halfpenny, 1795, in silver, register stove, rev. two men at a forge, edge


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