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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.