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Auction: 336 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 493

Great Britain, Middlesex, Franklin Press, copper Halfpenny token, 1794, printing press, sic oritur doctrina surgetque libertas. 1794, rev. payable at the franklin press london, edge plain (D&H 222a), PCGS MS 62 Brown, rare

The printing press illustrated on the front of this token is believed to be the same press used by Benjamin Franklin while he worked in London as a journeyman printer for the firm of Mr. Watts of Wild street, Lincoln's Sun-Fields.

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