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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, Medals, The Greatheed Petition to Dismiss the King's Ministers, Warwick, 1797, a copper medal, unsigned, cart under gallows from which three men are hanging, the end of three logger heads, rev. as if from newgate cells three felons led, and on the new drop tyd, till dead, dead, dead, 37mm, 20.30g/12h (DH Warwickshire 11; BHM 445). Usual die flaw on obverse, the hanging men well struck up, extremely fine with considerable original colour, extremely rare
£1,000-1,500
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Provenance: W.L. Gantz Collection, Glendining Auction, 23-7 June 1941, lot 1718 (part)
BRITISH TOKENS, Medals, The Greatheed Petition to Dismiss the King's Ministers, Warwick, 1797, a copper medal, unsigned, cart under gallows from which three men are hanging, the end of three logger heads, rev. as if from newgate cells three felons led, and on the new drop tyd, till dead, dead, dead, 37mm, 20.30g/12h (DH Warwickshire 11; BHM 445). Usual die flaw on obverse, the hanging men well struck up, extremely fine with considerable original colour, extremely rare
£1,000-1,500
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Provenance: W.L. Gantz Collection, Glendining Auction, 23-7 June 1941, lot 1718 (part)