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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: 1323

WARWICKSHIRE, Coventry, Kempson's Series of Historic Buildings, Halfpenny, 1797, SPON GATE, view of gateway, TAKEN DOWN 1771 in exergue, rev. THE ARMS OF COVENTRY, shield of arms, COVENTRY TOKEN on edge, 6h, 13.50g (D&H 276), with a handsome brilliance to chocolate-red surfaces, much as struck; another, Halfpenny, 1797, BABLAKE HOSPITAL, view of building, FOUNDED 1506 in exergue, rev. THE ARMS OF COVENTRY, shield of arms, plain on edge, 6h, 13.09g (D&H 282a), some minor contact marks and with speckled toning, otherwise with a handsome blue tone to brilliant chocolate-brown fields, good extremely fine; Middlesex, London, Sim's Halfpenny, undated, bust of Garrick right, rev. tragic and comic masks, plain edge, 5h, 9.84g (D&H 478), with a handsome mint red and lustre, good extremely fine; National Series, Prince of Wales, Halfpenny, undated, bust three-quarters right, rev. Royal arms, PAYABLE IN LANCASTER LONDON OR BRISTOL on edge, 6h, 9.32g (D&H 955), touch of softness to portrait, otherwise with a handsome mint red tone and lustre, extremely fine (4)

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Starting price
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