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Auction: 8012 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 528

BATTY, D.T. & LAWRENCE, F.G. (Ed.) Batty´s Catalogue of the Copper Coinage of Great Britain, Ireland, British Isles, and Colonies, Local & Private Tokens, Jettons, &c. Compiled from Various Authors, and the Most Celebrated Collections; Together with the Author´s Own Collection of About Ten Thousand Varieties. Manchester and London, 1868-1898. Complete in four volumes. Small quarto, pp. 1300, (2), 152; 4 engraved plates of tokens. Original printed wrappers of individual parts bound in. Original olive cloth, gilt, top edges gilt, some rubbing at edges. Neat ownership label to first pastedown of vol. 1. A fine set of this rare work especially complete with the supplement volume containing Colonial Copper. (4) Estimate £ 200-250 A work praised by Arthur Waters for recording many minor tickets and checks that had previously gone unrecorded. The Appendix was edited by F. G. Lawrence after the death of the author.

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