363, Lot: 528. Estimate $150. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRADE TOKENS, Staffordshire. Perry Barr. William Booth. CU Penny (35mm, 20.30 g, 12h). Dated 1811. PAYABLE BY WM: BOOTH, PERRY BARR around, vertical sheaf of wheat on ground line within double circle / (four-pellet ornament) STAFFORDSHIRE (four-pellet ornament) around, PENNY TOKEN within double circle; 1811 below. Davis 90. AU/UNC, attractive brown surfaces.

Davis relates that “William Booth....it is said, struck the Perry Barr token as a cover for his forgeries, for which he was found guilty and executed at Stafford on August 15, 1812.”