439, Lot: 739. Estimate $100. Sold for $75. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TOKENS, Warwickshire. Birmingham. Alston’s. CU Halfpenny (28mm, 7.77 g, 6h). Dated 1796. BIRM^M POOR HOUSE HALFPENNY TOKEN around, PAYABLE/ THERE in exergue, a public building / FOR USE OF THE PARISH around, I. Alston. Fecit/ 1796, a beehive and bees. Edge: Engrailed. D&H 63. EF, some underlying red.

From the Quentin Brisley Collection of British Tokens.