Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection (Part VIII)
Numismatists Tokens and Ephemera, YORKSHIRE, Halifax, Silver Jubilee of the Halifax Antiquarian Society, 1925, bronze medals by J.A. Restall for S.H. Hamer (2), shield containing a Halifax gibbet, flanked by paschal lamb, wool-comb and shuttle, revs. samuel henry hamer founder and secretary below inkwell and crossed quill pens, one with edge plain, other with edge i will exchange my token for an approved one and two acorns, both 38mm, 22.32g/12h, 22.24g/12h (Bell, 1966, A10a, 10b) [2]. Extremely fine, these edge variants rare £80-£100
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Provenance: First G.W. Spencer Collection, Spink Auction 28, 28 April 1983, lot 156 (part) [from Seaby 1965]; second P.C. Deane Collection, bt S.E. Schwer 1981