439, Lot: 701. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TOKENS, Gloucestershire. Badminton. CU Halfpenny (28.5mm, 8.98 g, 6h). Dated 1st April 1796. (quadrilobe) BREAD FOR 1.^S APRIL 1796 (quadrilobe) GOD BE PRAISED, a pair of scales, 6½ lb / TO THE/ ILLUSTRIOUS/ DUKE OF BEAUFORT/ THE FRIEND OF/ MANKIND, & HIS/ WORTHY TENANTS WHO/ REDUCED THE PRICE/ OF THEIR WHEAT/ TO 9.^S P.^R BUSHEL/ A.D. 1795. in ten lines within sprigs of laurel and oak; portcullis above. D&H 57. EF, brown surfaces. India ink collectors number in obverse field.

From the Quentin Brisley Collection of British Tokens.