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Auction T17 3 Oct 2019
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Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection (Part VIII)
Numismatists Tokens and Ephemera, BERKSHIRE, Hampstead Norreys, Barzillai Lowsley, copper Five Shillings or medal, 1889, crest above arms, token of lt colonel b lowsley royal engineers issued 1889, rev. view of Hampstead Norreys church and graveyard, token value five shillings...restored 28th april 1880, edge plain, 38mm, 25.85g/12h (Bell, 1966, A1). Light spotting on obverse, otherwise very fine and exceptionally rare £150-£200
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Provenance: W.J. Noble Collection, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 61B (Melbourne), 3-4 August 1999, lot 362 [from Spink].
Barzillai Lowsley (1840-1905), served in the Royal Engineers in Barbados, 1862-72, and then in Ceylon, 1872-82, ending his career with the rank of Lt-Col. The family seat was at Hampstead Norreys, near Newbury; Lowsley was a noted coin and token collector, student of Berkshire dialect and folklore and the game of whist
Numismatists Tokens and Ephemera, BERKSHIRE, Hampstead Norreys, Barzillai Lowsley, copper Five Shillings or medal, 1889, crest above arms, token of lt colonel b lowsley royal engineers issued 1889, rev. view of Hampstead Norreys church and graveyard, token value five shillings...restored 28th april 1880, edge plain, 38mm, 25.85g/12h (Bell, 1966, A1). Light spotting on obverse, otherwise very fine and exceptionally rare £150-£200
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Provenance: W.J. Noble Collection, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 61B (Melbourne), 3-4 August 1999, lot 362 [from Spink].
Barzillai Lowsley (1840-1905), served in the Royal Engineers in Barbados, 1862-72, and then in Ceylon, 1872-82, ending his career with the rank of Lt-Col. The family seat was at Hampstead Norreys, near Newbury; Lowsley was a noted coin and token collector, student of Berkshire dialect and folklore and the game of whist