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Auction 140 15-16 Mar 2017
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BRITISH TOKENS FROM VARIOUS PROPERTIES
BRITISH TOKENS, Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Transportation token: George III, Penny, 1807, rev. planed flat and stipple-engraved (R.W. Cook, 1832, Forget Me Not). Obverse fine, reverse very fine, rare £300-360
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Robert Cook was sentenced at Southampton on 18 December 1830 to be transported for life. He was among 67 other offenders with a similar sentence who sailed to Australia on the Captain Cook, which left Southampton on 2 May 1833 and arrived in Sydney on 26 August
BRITISH TOKENS, Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Transportation token: George III, Penny, 1807, rev. planed flat and stipple-engraved (R.W. Cook, 1832, Forget Me Not). Obverse fine, reverse very fine, rare £300-360
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Robert Cook was sentenced at Southampton on 18 December 1830 to be transported for life. He was among 67 other offenders with a similar sentence who sailed to Australia on the Captain Cook, which left Southampton on 2 May 1833 and arrived in Sydney on 26 August