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Auction: 20126 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 6: Historical and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 3663

Warwickshire Penny-sized Boxing Tokens / Medals, 1789 (2): bust of Thomas Johnson, rev. SCIENCE AND INTREPIDITY (DH.12); bust of Isaac Perrins, rev. STRENGTH AND MAGNANIMITY (DH.13), first about very fine, second about uncirculated with traces of lustre.(2)

The boxing contest between these two took place on 22 October 1789 at Banbury, Oxfordshire. Johnson won. See R.C. Bell, Political and Commemorative Pieces simulating Tradesmen's Tokens (1987), pp. 67-70

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