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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: 1319

SOMERSET, Bath, W. Gye, Halfpenny, 1794, PAYABLE AT W. GYE'S PRINTER BATH on edge, 6h, 9.92g (D&H 32), brown surfaces, very fine; Bath, Halfpenny, 1794, plain edge, 6h, 8.41g (D&H 26), scratched to the reverse, yet with hints of red, good very fine; Bath, Payne & Turner, Halfpenny, undated, PAYNE & TURNER SILVER-SMITHS BATH on edge, 5h, 11.07g (D&H 65), nice to the portrait, good very fine; Bath, M. Lamb, Farthing, 1795, plain edge, 6h, 4.47g (D&H 112a), lustrous, extremely fine; Bath, Heath, Farthing, 1795, plain edge, 6h, 4.10g (D&H 116), lustrous, hints of red, extremely fine; GLOUCESTERHIRE, Badminton, Jelly & Arnott, Halfpenny, 1st April 1796, scale showing 6/2 Ib, rev. ten line inscription in wreath, plain edge, 6h, 9.39g (D&H 57), lustrous and toned to light brown surfaces, good extremely fine; another, Halfpenny, 1st April 1796, scale showing 6/2 Ib, rev. scale showing 3/2 Ib, plain edge, 12h, 9.65g (D&H 55), glass-like lustre to light brown surfaces, good extremely fine, both scarce; WARWICKSHIRE, Birmingham, Henry Hickman, Halfpenny, 1792, PAYABLE AT H. HICKMANS WAREHOUSE BIRMINGHAM on edge, 6h, 11.28g (D&H 144), light marking but with flashes of light brown, good very fine; Coventry, Halfpenny, 1792, PAYABLE AT THE WAREHOUSE OF ROBERT REYNOLDS & Co, on edge, 6h, 12.0g (D&H 250b), rubbed, yet very fine; CHESHIRE, Macclesfield, Halfpenny, 1791, PAYABLE AT MACCLESFIELD LIVERPOOL OR CONGLETON, on edge, 6h, 12.44g (D&H 28), very fine; SHROPSHIRE, Coalbrook Dale, Richard Reynolds & Sons, Halfpenny, 1792, PAYABLE AT COALBROOK DALE AND KETLEY., on edge, 12h, 12.30g (D&H 9), lightly contact marked, otherwise lustrous to pleasing light brown surfaces, extremely fine; LANCASHIRE, Rochdale, Halfpenny, undated, PAYABLE IN HULL AND LONDON, on edge, 12h, 9.34g (D&H 150), lightly contact marked, yet lustrous to light brown surfaces, extremely fine (12)

The Badminton series are not currency tokens, but were struck to perpetuate 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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