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Auction: 24123 - British and World Coins and Medals featuring the Pritchard Collection of 18th Century Provincial Tokens and Commemorative Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 810

GLOUCESTERSHIRE, Badminton, Duke of Beaufort Series, 'Beggar' Halfpenny, 1795, plain edge, 6h, 9.20g (D&H 22), handsome lustre and toning to the reverse, extremely fine, reverse better; 'Beggar and Plough' Halfpenny, 1795, plain edge, 6h, 9.50g (D&H 38), lacquered yet with brown and red surfaces, about extremely fine; 'Beggar and Ship' Halfpenny, 1796, plain edge, 6h, 9.03g (D&H 31), residually lustrous, extremely fine; 'Plough and Scales' Halfpenny, 1796, plain edge, 6h, 9.62g (D&H 41), mostly red to the surfaces and lustrous, good extremely fine; 'Scales and Dedication' Halfpenny, 1796, plain edge, 6h, 9.72g (D&H 50), light lustre, extremely fine; 'Scales' Halfpenny, 1796, plain edge, 6h, 9.79g (D&H 55), lustrous, extremely fine; 'Scales and Dedication' Halfpenny, 1796, plain edge, 6h, 9.88g (D&H 57), lustrous, extremely fine (7)

The Pritchard Collection of 18th Century Provincial Tokens and Commemorative Medals



The Badminton series are not currency tokens, but were struck to perpetuate to the memory of the Duke of Beaufort, and to illustrate incidents connected with a period of scarcity of corn, all are rather scarce, as noted by Dalton and Hamer.


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