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Auction: 24123 - British and World Coins and Medals featuring the Pritchard Collection of 18th Century Provincial Tokens and Commemorative Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 872

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, 16.18g (D&H 906), faintest of friction marking to the reverse, nonetheless with a pleasing flashy lustre and with hints of red to otherwise light brown surfaces, good extremely fine and ever popular

The Pritchard Collection of 18th Century Provincial Tokens and Commemorative Medals


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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