Extremely Rare Masonic Type

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1885. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TOKENS, Middlesex. London. Corresponding Society/Skidmore’s mule. CU Halfpenny Token (29mm, 9.05 g, 6h). Dated 1796. Hanging scene; liberty-cap on vine-entwined pole, shield emblazoned with anchor, and obelisk in foreground / Obelisk with Masonic symbols. D&H 291; Bell, Political p. 159 (this coin illustrated). EF, brown surfaes with considerable red color, minor discoloration on obverse. Extremely rare.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Dix, Noonan, & Web (6 October 2010), lot 324; W.J. Noble Collection (Noble 58B, 7 July 1998), lot 427; R.C. Bell Collection (Dix, Noonan, & Web 26, 1 October 1996), lot 75.