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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 559

A Collection of Bank Tokens (7) | Bank of England, Three Shillings, 1811, first laureate and cuirassed bust right, rev. value and date in wreath, edge plain, 14.70g, 11h (ESC 408; Bull 2065; S.3769), edge bruise and scratched, about very fine; Eighteenpence, 1811, as before, edge plain, 7.33g, 12h (ESC 969; Bull 2112; S.3771), flashy lustre, extremely fine; another, as before, edge plain, 7.33g, 12h (ESC 969; Bull 2112; S.3771), with private 'JP' mark to obverse, toned, about extremely fine; another, 1812 (2), second laureate bust right, rev. value and date in wreath, edges plain, 7.40g, 12h; another, 7.38g, 12h (ESC 972; Bull 2115; S.3772), the first with a flashy lustre and toned, extremely fine, the second toned, good very fine; lastly, 'Counterfeit' Eighteenpence, 1816, as before, edge plain, 5.45g, 12h (cf. ESC 979; cf. Bull 2123; cf. S.3772), heavily scratched and discoloured, barely fine, but an interesting piece of socio-numismatic commentary; additionally, Bank of Ireland, George III, Tenpence, 1806, laureate and cuirassed bust right, rev. value and date, edge plain, 4.03g, 12h (S.6617), smoothed, yet toned, fine (7)

Provenance

The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection (1870-1941)

All acquired privately, by April 1913

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