444, Lot: 597. Estimate $75. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TOKENS, Gloucestershire. Brimscombe Port. CU Halfpenny (28.5mm, 9.79 g, 6h). Dated 1795. THAMES AND SEVERN CANAL, MDCCXCV/ –x– in two lines in exergue, a barge sailing right with plain sails. Edge: PAYABLE AT BRIMSCOMBE PORT + / Entrance into a tunnel. D&H 60. EF, brown surfaces, some shallow scratches.

From the Quentin Brisley Collection of British Tokens.