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Auction T15 8 Nov 2017
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A Distinguished Cabinet of British Tokens, the Property of a Gentleman
BRITISH TOKENS, 18th Century Tokens, LONDON, St Paul's, Skidmore's Clerkenwell series, Penny, St Paul's School, rev. from the same die as previous, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 24.32g/12h (DH 158). From the usual flawed reverse die, remains of plaster in sunken parts of edge inscription, otherwise extremely fine, original colour £100-150
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Provenance: W.L. Gantz Collection, Glendining Auction, 23-7 June 1941, lot 1677 (part).
The state of the edge suggests that a plaster cast was taken of this token at some point prior to 1941, but it is not the same piece illustrated in DH
BRITISH TOKENS, 18th Century Tokens, LONDON, St Paul's, Skidmore's Clerkenwell series, Penny, St Paul's School, rev. from the same die as previous, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 24.32g/12h (DH 158). From the usual flawed reverse die, remains of plaster in sunken parts of edge inscription, otherwise extremely fine, original colour £100-150
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Provenance: W.L. Gantz Collection, Glendining Auction, 23-7 June 1941, lot 1677 (part).
The state of the edge suggests that a plaster cast was taken of this token at some point prior to 1941, but it is not the same piece illustrated in DH