Watch List notes:

Buckinghamshire 3 (Scarce). Aylsbury. Æ halfpenny. 9.68 gm. 27 mm. Justice seated, a scale in her outstretched left hand and a sword in her right hand; AYLSBURY * HALF * PENNY * around / Shield of arms; BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 1796 around. Plain edge. Choice Extremely Fine; rich brown tone.There are tokens in this section that are seldom to almost never seen. They came from a purchase I made in London in September. I felt extremely fortunate to be able to handle this group. Many of them date back to the grand collection formed by Cokayne, a collection of such depth and breadth that it will probably never be equaled. The section includes at least one identifiable plate coin from D&H and a dramatic lighthouse token that Cokayne had with a Davis and a Murdoch pedigree. The Mendoza piece in copper is only the second known in this metal. Though 19th Century tokens are less popular than the Dalton and Hamer series, some of them are dramatic enough on their own to warrant a place in a serious token collection; there are two such pieces here. The Davis and Waters issues often could have been included in D&H but were overlooked or passed over for some reason. The D&H criteria for inclusion is worth a research effort because of the range of things they accepted and omitted. Anyhow, the Davis and Waters pieces offered here are extremely rare, so much so that the definitive collection of this series by Montague Guest did not include them.