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Auction: 20122 - Spink Numismatic e-Circulars 2 Part I: Toy Money, Tokens,Tickets and Medals
Lot: 725

Middlesex, London, Halfpenny Tokens (2), (Strand, Jasper and Simon Kelly), undated, KELLYS LIGHT HARNESS & CO. postilion holding horse, SOLD CHEAP AT THEIR | MANUFACTORY | STRAND | LONDON. in exergue, rev. KELLYS PATENT SADLERY &c | SOLD CHEAP., accoutrements, PAYABLE AT LONDON on edge, 6h, 8.48g (Atkins 97/240; D&H 345), faulty flan with flecking and splits, otherwise struck extremely fine; also, (Lackington's Mail Coach), undated (c. 1797), MAIL COACH HALFPENNY PAYABLE IN LONDON around, mail coach pulled by four galloping horses; TO TRADE EXPEDITION & TO PROPERTY PROTECTION in exergue, rev. TO | J. PALMER . ESQ | THIS IS INSCRIBED | AS A TOKEN OF | GRATITUDE FOR BENEFITS RECED | FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT | OF MAIL COACHES, JF cypher below, edge plain, 12h, 8.70g (D&H 363), extremely fine (2)

John Palmer of Bath (1742–1818) was a theatre owner, but is more famously remembered for the creation of British mail coaches system, the forerunner to the Post Office from the late 18th century. Ironically, Dick Turpin one of the most notorious 18th Century highwaymen to hold up stagecoaches and cause the need for such reforms used the alias John Palmer.

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