British Tokens, Eighteenth Century Tokens, Middlesex, Meymott & Son (3): halfpenny, 1795, Britannia holding scales, rev. City of London arms, edge plain (DH.377a); mule halfpennies, 1795 (2), obv. as previous, rev. Orchard family arms, wheatsheaf between doves (DH.381/383), DH.377a double-struck, flat areas either side affecting parts of legends and the date, obverse with flan defects, otherwise close to its original condition with remnants of lustre on reverse, DH.381 very fine, slightly weak in centre either side, DH.383 extremely fine, residual lustre but with some scratches towards top of obverse and a spot of verdigris at base of scales, DH.377a very rare, DH.381 rare, this and DH.383 from the badly flawed obverse die (3)
*DH.377a ex Sanderson (1945), lot 122 (part), ex Hamer, lot 179 (part)
the lot ex Baldwin's vault
Estimate: 130-180 GBP