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Auction 92  30 September 2014
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Lot 76

Estimate: 180 GBP
Price realized: 240 GBP
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BRITISH 18th CENTURY TOKENS, Meymott & Son, Copper Halfpenny, 1795, obv Britannia seated holding a pair of scales and a spear, MEYMOTT + & + SON + LONDON around, exergue + 1795 +, crosses in legend and before and after the date, spear to the base of the O in SON, the base of the scale to left lines just below the foot of Y of MEYMONT, rev Arms of London, SCALES + WEIGHTS + & + STEEL-YARDS + around, edge plain, not in collar (Atkins p.102, 265a; D&H Middlesex 377a). An early state of the obverse die before it cracked, weakly struck around the perimeter from 5 o'clock to 7 o'clock with corresponding weakness on the reverse, a couple of minor scrapes, otherwise good extremely fine and very rare.
ex W J Davis Collection, Sotheby's, 11-15 March 1901
ex F S Cokayne Collection

Estimate: £180-220
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