Baldwin's of St. James's
Auction 40 21 Nov 2019
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Tokens, Warwickshire/South Wales, mule farthing, 1793, rose, thistle and shamrock, as DH. Warks. 146, rev. Prince of Wales's feathers within shield, as DH. South Wales 26, edge & YALLOP, twice, one impression inverted compared with the other, fine or better, with minor edge knocks, struck on a large farthing-sized flan with notable flaws on the reverse, an unpublished combination of dies, unique
*ex Baldwin'sVault
*ex Cokayne, who identified it on his ticket as Warwickshire 146 bis
The edge lettering is presumably from two broken edge collars for halfpennies of the Norwich goldsmiths Dunham & Yallop (DH. Norfolk 27-32). Of interest also is that it is the only farthing-sized eighteenth-century token with lettering on the edge apart from some of those of Henry Hickman (Warks. 481). Made at William Mainwaring's Birmingham minting workshop, it was perhaps a test piece to evaluate the feasibility of lettering on farthing-sized flan edges.
(100-150)
*ex Baldwin'sVault
*ex Cokayne, who identified it on his ticket as Warwickshire 146 bis
The edge lettering is presumably from two broken edge collars for halfpennies of the Norwich goldsmiths Dunham & Yallop (DH. Norfolk 27-32). Of interest also is that it is the only farthing-sized eighteenth-century token with lettering on the edge apart from some of those of Henry Hickman (Warks. 481). Made at William Mainwaring's Birmingham minting workshop, it was perhaps a test piece to evaluate the feasibility of lettering on farthing-sized flan edges.
(100-150)