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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: 825

LANCASHIRE, Lancaster, Abraham Seward, Gilt-Copper Penny, 1794, LANCASTER CASTLE, view of the castle, rev. LANCASTER BRIDGE, view of the bridge, plain edge, 12h, 20.75g (D&H 2), pinmarking to the fields, otherwise the gilt intact and with a faint residual lustre, near extremely fine, scarcely encountered

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


Hamer writing in the British Numismatic Journal in 1903 states; 'In the Universal British Directory of 1790, Abraham Sewart is described as a brass and bell-founder, Market Street. Thomas Harrison of Chapel Road, was the architect for the bridge and also for certain alternations and additions to the castle. The bridge is 459 feet long, and at the time it was built, was said "to be one of the finest of its size in Europe"; it cost £12,000 and was erected at the expense of the county.'


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