Baldwin & Sons
Auction 102 4 October 2016
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BRITISH 18TH CENTURY TOKENS, ENGLAND, John Milton, (1751-1843), grocer and draper, Winchelsea, White Metal Penny, 1795, obv bust left, REVD. WILLM. ROMAINE. M . A. around, rev BUT I TRUSTED IN THEE, O LORD: I SAID, THOU ART my GOD. PSALM . 31 . 14 OB . JULY . 26 . 1795. AE. 81 . YEARS, T of THOU under L of LORD, edge plain (Conder p.207, 44; Atkins p.363, 33; D&H Middlesex 214). From the fractured reverse die, nearly good extremely fine and scarce.
ex Lincoln Number 1 Collection
ex F S Cokayne Collection, acquired 25 April 1934 for 5/-
Milton was appointed as Assistant Engraver at the Royal Mint in 1787 and was Medalist to the Prince of Wales. Milton executed dies for a number of provincial coins including those for Colonel Fullarton. Sir Joseph Banks noticed these dies while they were still in Milton's possession and, remarking upon their resemblance to national silver coin then in circulation, cautioned Milton against the project as the artist may be subject to "a charge little short of High Treason". The project was ultimately abandoned but Milton was later dismissed from the Royal Mint in 1798 after it was learned that he had been supplying counterfeit dies to produce foreign gold
Estimate: £80-100
ex Lincoln Number 1 Collection
ex F S Cokayne Collection, acquired 25 April 1934 for 5/-
Milton was appointed as Assistant Engraver at the Royal Mint in 1787 and was Medalist to the Prince of Wales. Milton executed dies for a number of provincial coins including those for Colonel Fullarton. Sir Joseph Banks noticed these dies while they were still in Milton's possession and, remarking upon their resemblance to national silver coin then in circulation, cautioned Milton against the project as the artist may be subject to "a charge little short of High Treason". The project was ultimately abandoned but Milton was later dismissed from the Royal Mint in 1798 after it was learned that he had been supplying counterfeit dies to produce foreign gold
Estimate: £80-100