255, Lot: 541. Estimate $100. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ENGLAND, Somersetshire. Wiveliscombe. J. Featherstone, clothier. CU Threepence Token (44mm, 58.41 g, 12h). Dated 1814. Commerce seated left on beehive, holding olive branch and spear; in background to left, ship under sail right on water; to right, sheep seated left / Legend in three lines. Withers 1225; Bell 4; Davis 122. Good VF, dark brown surfaces, usual nicks in field. Very rare.

From the Clarence & Helen Zaar Maritime Collection.