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Auction: 390 - Renaissance Plaquettes and Commemorative Medals featuring the Neil A. Goodman Collection - e-Auction
Lot: 366

Great Britain. Late 18th Century Merchant Halfpenny Tokens depicting William Shakespeare. London & Middlesex. 1792. Bust left / Woman seated left bracing cornucopia, ship in distance (5, var) Warwickshire. County. 1791. Bust left / Woman seated left bracing cornucopia, ship in distance (4, var); 1792. Vulcan at work right reverse (3, one of which in ring mount); Stratford. 1790. Bust left / Woman seated left holding mining tools; North Wales. Harp reverse; and muled with ship reverse. Fine-EF; and Evasion Halfpennies: GULIEMUS SHAKESPEAR. Laureate bust left; / Britannia right; ENGLANDS / GLORY (in ex). Three examples, VF-EF; Bust right / Britannia left; BRITONS RULE 1791. Clashed dies, Fine for type; SHAKESPEARE. Laureate bust left / Britannia left; RULE BRITANNIA 1771. Fine+ for type; also: Gregorius III Pon evasion Halfpenny 1781. VG-Fine, deposits; and Druid head 1788 Halfpenny. (22)

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