Watch List notes:

BRITISH 18th CENTURY TOKENS, John Hancock, Copper Halfpenny, 1796, obv shop front and small umbrella, I . HANCOCK . N 19 . LEATHER . LANE . HOLBORN . LONDON . around, rev cypher I H, 1796 below, all within a circle of leaves, UMBRELLA . MAKER & DEALER . IN . PROVINCIAL . COINS. around, edge plain (Conder p.89, 159; Pye p.30, 6; Virt p.178; Atkins p.96, 231; D&H Middlesex 320). An early state of the obverse die, a little verdigris, otherwise virtually mint state and with much original colour, scarce.

Estimate: £100-120