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Auction 20126  17 Dec 2020
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Lot 3663

Starting price: 70 GBP
Price realized: 320 GBP
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Warwickshire Penny-sized Boxing Tokens / Medals, 1789 (2): bust of Thomas Johnson, rev. SCIENCE AND INTREPIDITY (DH.12); bust of Isaac Perrins, rev. STRENGTH AND MAGNANIMITY (DH.13), first about very fine, second about uncirculated with traces of lustre.(2).
The boxing contest between these two took place on 22 October 1789 at Banbury, Oxfordshire. Johnson won. See R.C. Bell, Political and Commemorative Pieces simulating Tradesmen's Tokens (1987), pp. 67-70
Estimate: £100 - £120
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