Baldwin & Sons
Auction 107 5 Oct 2022
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Birmingham, George Barker (lawyer) Penny 1800, bust of William Pitt left, rev. PENNY TOKEN FOR
EXCHANGE around, beehive and bees, THE WORK OF JOHN GREGORY HANCOCK AGED NINE
YEARS below, edge BY GEORGE BARKER BIRMINGHAM X X, 35.5mm/24.52gm. (DH 17). Usual small
die flaw on reverse at 4 o'clock, a little weakly struck otherwise as struck with attractive brown patination – almost bronzed, excessively rare.
Ex. W.J. Noble Col., Part I, Noble Numismatics 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 Jul. 1998, lot 932 [from Spink 1973]; Bought A. Davisson November 1998; Ex. The late Robinson S. Brown Jr. Col. of 18th Century Tokens (Part III), via DNW, 5 Oct. 2011, lot 773; Ex. Baldwins Jan. 2017
EXCHANGE around, beehive and bees, THE WORK OF JOHN GREGORY HANCOCK AGED NINE
YEARS below, edge BY GEORGE BARKER BIRMINGHAM X X, 35.5mm/24.52gm. (DH 17). Usual small
die flaw on reverse at 4 o'clock, a little weakly struck otherwise as struck with attractive brown patination – almost bronzed, excessively rare.
Ex. W.J. Noble Col., Part I, Noble Numismatics 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 Jul. 1998, lot 932 [from Spink 1973]; Bought A. Davisson November 1998; Ex. The late Robinson S. Brown Jr. Col. of 18th Century Tokens (Part III), via DNW, 5 Oct. 2011, lot 773; Ex. Baldwins Jan. 2017