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Countermarked Tokens from the Collection of Neil Beaton

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Lot 555

Date of Auction: 2nd April 2014

Sold for £650

Estimate: £150 - £200

Countermarked Tokens from the Collection of Neil Beaton

BUTE, Rothesay, Rothsay Mills, an ANGLESEY, Parys Mine Co, imitation ‘Promissory’ Halfpenny, 1793 (DH Anglesey 451), obv. countermarked payable at rothsay mills ◊, 9.64g/6h (Scott 60.1A; D 65). Token fair to fine, countermark very fine £150-200

Footnote

Provenance: H.D. Gibbs Collection, Hans Schulman Auction (New York), 19 November 1960, lot 303; N.G. Brodie Collection, DNW Auction 55, 8 October 2002, lot 224 [from Spink May 1978]