444, Lot: 621. Estimate $75. Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TOKENS, SCOTLAND. Lothian. Edinburgh. Register Office. CU Halfpenny (28mm, 10.73 g, 6h). Dated 1796. EDINBURGH HALFPENNY/ 1796 in two lines above, WRIGHT DES in small letters on the ground, REGISTER OFFICE/ FOUNDED 1774 in two lines in exergue, view of the Register Office / BRI TAN NIA. above, the figure of Britannia seated left, holding spear and resting arm on shield set on ground to right; part of a sailing ship to left. D&H 52. EF, much original red, the usual die break on obverse.

From the Quentin Brisley Collection of British Tokens.