440, Lot: 667. Estimate $100. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TOKENS, Middlesex. Spence’s. CU Halfpenny (29mm, 12.85 g, 6h). Undated (struck in late 18th century). MUCH GRATITUDE • BRINGS SERVITUDE •, a dog left / WE/ WERE BORN/ -FREE-/ -AND-/ WILL NEVER/ DIE SLAVE[^S] in six lines, a horizontal caduceus between a crown and a pileus. Edge: SPENCE x DEALER x IN x COINS x LONDON x. D&H 750. EF, brown surfaces.

From the Quentin Brisley Collection of British Tokens.