440, Lot: 677. Estimate $75. Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TOKENS, Warwickshire. Birmingham. Mining & Copper Company. CU Halfpenny (31mm, 12.48 g, 6h). Dated 1791. BIRMINGHAM MINING AND COPPER COMPANY around, 1791 in exergue, laureate and draped female seated right on a rock, resting hand on rock and holding fasces / HALFPENNY PAYABLE AT around, stork standing left on cornucopia. Edge: BIRMINGHAM REDRUTH & SWANSEA. D&H 82. EF, brown surfaces.

From the Quentin Brisley Collection of British Tokens.