445, Lot: 804. Estimate $75. Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TOKENS, Gloucestershire. Badminton. CU Halfpenny (29mm, 9.45 g, 6h). Dated 1796. THE SALE OF CORN BY WEIGHT PROPOSED 1796, a pair of scales / TO THE/ ILLUSTRIOUS/ DUKE OF BEAUFORT/ THE FRIEND OF/ MANKIND, & HIS/ WORTHY TENANTS WHO/ REDUCED THE PRICE/ OF THEIR WHEAT/ TO 9.^S P.^R BUSHEL/ A.D. 1795. in ten lines within sprigs of laurel and oak; portcullis above. D&H 50. EF, brown surfaces, some red.

From the Quentin Brisley Collection of British Tokens.