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Auction 178  8 Jul 2020
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Lot 596

Estimate: 150 GBP
Price realized: 1400 GBP
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British Tokens from Various Properties

Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Transportation: a Georgian Halfpenny [pre-1776], both sides planed flat and engraved, male figure in long-coat standing right, wielding a paint-brush(?) on the window frame of a bricked wall of a house, t. woolf bn oc 23 1766 around, rev. when this you see remember me tho maney miles we distant be in seven lines, 27mm. Very fine, competent style; worthy of further research £150-£200

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Provenance: R. Lyall Collection.

The owner's ticket states that Woolf had been transported on one of the vessels named Asia. 'He was in N.S.W. in the 1828 Census when he was in 'No.10 Iron Gang' on the Northern Road'
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