441, Lot: 632. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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TOKENS, Suffolk. Bury. Charles Marquis Cornwallis. CU Penny (33.5mm, 17.42 g, 6h). Dated 1794. CHARLES MARQUIS CORNWALLIS, bust of Cornwallis left, wearing cocked hat / HIS FAME RE SOUNDS FROM EAST TO WEST, figure of fame, holding laurel wreath and blowing trumpet, standing facing between implements of war. Edge: VALUE ONE PENNY AT P. DECKS POST OFFICE BURY 1794. D&H 4. EF, brown surfaces, shallow scratches in fields.
From the Quentin Brisley Collection of British Tokens.