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Auction 102  4 October 2016
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Lot 2119

Estimate: 200 GBP
Price realized: 190 GBP
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BRITISH 18TH CENTURY TOKENS, ENGLAND, William Lutwyche, (1754-1801), toymaker, later token manufacturer, Temple Row and St Philip churchyard, Copper Halfpenny (10), 1795, obv bust of Earl Howe left, 1793 below, EARL HOWE & THE GLORIOUS FIRST OF JUNE 1795 . HALFPENNY around, rev ship under sail to right, THE GUARD & GLORY OF BRITAIN around (4), edge PAYABLE IN DUBLIN OR AT BALLYMURTAUGH (Atkins p.371, 112a; D&H Hampshire 29a), edge PAYABLE IN DUBLIN OR LONDON +.+. (Atkins p.371, 112b; D&H Hampshire 29b), edge PAYABLE IN SUFFOLK BATH OR MANCHESTER (Atkins p.371, 112c; D&H Hampshire 29c), edge plain (D&H Hampshire 29f); rev ship under sail to left, THE WOODEN WALLS OF OLD ENGLAND around (4), edge PAYABLE IN LANCASTER LONDON OR BRISTOL (Atkins p.371, 113; D&H Hampshire 30), edge PAYABLE AT LONDON .+.+. (Atkins p.371, 113a; D&H Hampshire 30a), edge PAYABLE AT LONDON OR DUBLIN (Atkins p.371, 113b; D&H Hampshire 30b), edge CURRANT EVERY WHERE (Conder p.226, 138; Atkins p.371, 113c; D&H Hampshire 30c); rev Britannia seated, RULE BRITANNIA, edge engrailed (Atkins p.371, 114; D&H Hampshire 31); rev female seated, HALFPENNY, 1790, edge plain (Conder p.226, 139; Atkins p.371, 115; D&H Hampshire 33). Generally very fine to extremely fine, D&H 30c rare, D&H 31 very rare. (10)

For D&H 30c Atkins and D&H list the edge as CURRENT, though Cokayne had noted the spelling as CURRANT.
Lutwyche was active in the production of tokens from 1791 until 1801 and seems to have had more individual commissions for than any other manufacturer. His output of more than 65 tons of "legitimate provincial coins" was exceeded only by that of Thomas Williams, the consortium of Westwood and Hancock, and that of Matthew Boulton. He frequently combined dies then in his possession to produce various mules, concocted numerous specious issues, and has been attributed with manufacturing the bulk of evasions and lightweight coppers that appeared toward the end of the 18th Century

Estimate: £200-300
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