440, Lot: 674. Estimate $75. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TOKENS, Sussex. Eastbourne. CU Halfpenny (30mm, 9.53 g, 6h). Dated 1796. FISHER’S LIBRARY above, AND/ LOUNGE/ 1796 in three lines in exergue, view of a house / PROSPERITY/ TO THE/ GENTRY/ WHO VISIT/ EAST-BOURN in five lines across field. with an ornament above and below. Edge: CELEBRATED FOR PURE AIR & SEA BATHING • + • + •. EF, brown surfaces, traces of red, die break on obverse, planchet flaw on reverse.

From the Quentin Brisley Collection of British Tokens.