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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 659

GLOUCESTERSHIRE, Badminton, Duke of Beaufort Series, 'Beggar' Halfpenny, 1795, BADMINTON TOKEN, on edge, 6h, 10.09g (D&H 22), lustrous and with hints of red, good very fine; another, Halfpenny, 1796, George III, rev. ship, plain edge, 6h, 9.10g (D&H 25), brilliant to fields, largely mint red, much as struck and pleasing; another, 1796, George III, rev. scales, plain edge, 6h, 9.69g (D&H 28), glossy and near brilliant fields, flashes of red to light brown fields, pleasing extremely fine; Brimscombe Port, Thames & Severn Canal Co., Halfpenny, MDCCXCV [1795], PAYABLE AT BRIMSCOMBE PORT, on edge, 6h, 10.44g (D&H 60), very fine; Gloucester, Gloucester & Berkeley Canal Co., Halfpenny, 1795, PAYABLE AT GLOCESTER, on edge, 6h, 9.99g (D&H 63), some minor field marking, otherwise lustrous and a handsome strike, good extremely fine; Newent, J. Morse, Halfpenny, 1796, PAYABLE AT NEWENT, on edge, 12h, 11.72g (D&H 64), small hairline die flaw, otherwise some lustre, very fine; another, THOUSAND to reverse, PAYABLE AT NEWENT, on edge, 3h, 10.12g (D&H 65), some residual lustre, very fine (7)

Provenance

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




The Badminton series are not currency tokens, but were struck to perpetuate to the memory of the Duke of Beaufort, and to illustrate incidents connected with a period of scarcity of corn, and are all rather scarce.

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