Exceptional Flip Over Double Strike

439, Lot: 718. Estimate $200. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TOKENS, Middlesex. Ratley’s. CU Halfpenny (30.5mm, 13.52 g, 1h). Dated 1795. P. RATLEY. DUKES COURT S^T. MARTINS. DEALER IN DRAW^GS PICT^ES & CURIOSOTIES ÷, a man holding a picture while another man examines it / SHELLS. ORES & MINERALS. BO^T. SOLD. OR EXCHANGED. 1795, shells lying on the seashore, a rocky cliff, and a ship sailing on the sea. D&H 465. EF, brown surfaces. Dramatic rotated double strike on reverse.

From the Quentin Brisley Collection of British Tokens.