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Auction T20 30 Sep 2021
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The Collection of 19th Century Tokens formed by John Akins (Part II)
Gloucestershire, Nailsworth (?), Remmington & Smith, copper Halfcrown, 1804, legend around value, rev. we promise to pay the bearer on demand a one pound note for eight of these pieces, edge plain, 39mm, 16.62g/6h (W 2534; D & W 338/45; D Not Local 17; cf. Davis Sale, 701 [= Norman II, 310]; cf. DNW 165, 1097). Fair, extremely rare; very few specimens known £90-£120
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Provenance: Bt October 2016.
It is believed that the issuer was John Remmington, a broadcloth manufacturer and the proprietor of the Gigg spinning mill near Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, who lived at Horsley, near Minchinhampton. Remmington, whose clients included the East India Co, retired in 1811. Research potential
Gloucestershire, Nailsworth (?), Remmington & Smith, copper Halfcrown, 1804, legend around value, rev. we promise to pay the bearer on demand a one pound note for eight of these pieces, edge plain, 39mm, 16.62g/6h (W 2534; D & W 338/45; D Not Local 17; cf. Davis Sale, 701 [= Norman II, 310]; cf. DNW 165, 1097). Fair, extremely rare; very few specimens known £90-£120
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Provenance: Bt October 2016.
It is believed that the issuer was John Remmington, a broadcloth manufacturer and the proprietor of the Gigg spinning mill near Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, who lived at Horsley, near Minchinhampton. Remmington, whose clients included the East India Co, retired in 1811. Research potential