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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: 815

HAMPSHIRE, Southampton, Taylor, Moody & Co, Silver Proof Halfpenny, 1791, SR. BEVOIS SOUTHAMPTON, armoured and helmeted bust right, rev. PROMISSORY 1791 HALFPENNY, shield of arms, PAYABLE AT THE OFFICE OF W. TAYLOR R. V. MOODY & CO on edge, 6h, 12.48g (D&H 89), wisps of hairlines to the fields, with speckled frosting to otherwise lightly toned and brilliant fields, a most handsome extremely fine

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



W. Taylor, whose mill was at South Stoneham, about four miles from Southampton, was a maker of rope-blocks for ships and gun carriages. Richard Vernon Moody died in 1792; the writer of the Bazaar Notes states that he was a member of the Corporation. Sir Bevois is recorded as being a very powerful man; a sword of great size is shown at Arundel Castle, east of Southampton, said to have been his weapon.

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