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Numismatic Depiction of a Coining Press

441, Lot: 641. Estimate $75.
Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TOKENS, Warwickshire. Birmingham. Lutwyche’s. CU Halfpenny (30mm, 14.67 g, 6h). Undated (struck in late 18th century). MEDALS & PROVINCIAL COINS * around, DEA PECUNIA in exergue, a figure of Justice seated left, head facing slightly right, holding scales and upside-down cornucopia full of coins, spilling onto the ground; to right, oval shield inscribed ENGRAVING/ & DIE/ SINKING in three lines / LUTWYCHES MANUFACTORY around, BIRMINGHAM in exergue, a coining press. Edge: Plain (in collar). D&H 219b. EF, brown and some underlying red.


From the Quentin Brisley Collection of British Tokens.