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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 704

MIDDLESEX, London, Richard Summers' Museum, Halfpenny, 1797, A WILD MANS HEAD FROM THE LAND OF JESSO TO BE SEEN AT, head of wild man, rev. SUMMERS'S MUSEUM No. 24 OLD CAVENDISH STREET OXFORD STREET, RS larger cypher within, plain edge, 6h, 17.77g (D&H 906), scratched to the fields, nonetheless lustrous and with pleasing hints of original mint red, about extremely fine and one of the most sought after specimens of the Middlesex series

Provenance

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




Richard Summers, a dealer in paintings, old china, curiosities and natural history, was located at 24 Old Cavendish Street, London.

Hamer, writing in the British Numismatic Journal in 1903, said of these tokens that; 'Richard Summers issued some tokens of which there are two varieties of the reverse. These are in such high relief, that as currency they would not be a success, and as they would cost in striking, alone, not including the cost of sinking the dies, more than one halfpenny each, they could never have been intended for currency: both varieties are rare.'


For further reading: S. H. Hamer, 'Notes on the Private Tokens, Their Issuers and Die-Sinkers', British Numismatic Journal, Part 1, Volume 1, 1903

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