440, Lot: 654. Estimate $75. Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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TOKENS, Hampshire. Emsworth. CU Halfpenny (29mm, 9.10 g, 10h). Dated 1794. HALFPENNY. around, 1794 in exergue, a female seated left, resting right hand on globe and left arm on anchor; at feet to left, a couchant, crowned lion facing / PEACE AND PLENTY., a dove flying left with olive sprig in beak above a cornucopia. Edge: PAYABLE IN HULL AND IN LONDON – x x –. D&H 12b. EF, brown surfaces, some underlying red.
From the Quentin Brisley Collection of British Tokens.