441, Lot: 620. Estimate $100. Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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TOKENS, Lincolnshire. Wainfleet. CU Halfpenny (29mm, 11.82 g, 6h). Dated 1793. FOUNDED BY WILLIAM WAYNEFLETE 1459, view of Wainfleet Abbey / WAINFLEET HALFPENNY • around, 1793 in exergue, a figure of Hope standing facing, raising right hand and leaning on anchor with left; a ship sailing in the distance to left. Edge: PAYABLE AT THE WAREHOUSE OF D • WRIGHT & S • PALMER • x •. D&H 8. EF, mostly brown, a touch of red in the devices.
From the Quentin Brisley Collection of British Tokens.