19th CENTURY TOKENS, Yorkshire. Sheffield. CU Penny Token (34mm, 16.38 g, 5h). Contemporary counterfeit(?). Dated 1812. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of George III right / Britannia seated left on Union shield, holding olive branch and trident. Edge: crudely center grained. Withers 1071; Davis 121. Brown surfaces, some marks and scratches. VF. Rare possible contemporary counterfeit.
Ex Francis Cokayne (†1945) (Part II, Dix Noonan Webb 155, 16 January 2019), lot 675 (part of); W. Norman (Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, 27 June 1905), lot 269 (part of).