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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: 830

MIDDLESEX, London Ludgate Street, Matthew Young, Milton's Penny, MDCCXCVIII [1798], DEALER . IN COINS & MEDALS ANTIENT & MODERN No 16 LUDGATE . STREET LONDON, in six lines, rev. Britannia seated facing left, St Paul's behind, PROMISSORY PENNY TOKEN PAYABLE ON DEMAND ., on edge, 12h, 27.84g (D&H 41), with usual die flawing, lightly contact marked, otherwise with a residual lustre, very fine; Henry Young, Penny, 1794, St Paul's Cathedral, rev. star and Garter, plain edge, 11h, 13.79g (D&H 39), with usual die flaw to the date, otherwise lustrous to light brown surfaces, about extremely fine; another, as before, 12h, 16.77g (D&H 39), with usual die flaw to the date, residual lustre to slightly darker surfaces, near extremely fine; Robert Romanis, Halfpenny, 1814, obliquely milled edge, 6h, 11.72g (Davis 62), faint lustre and lightly bagmarked, very fine; William Waterhouse, The Sun Inn, Lad Lane, Halfpenny, undated, obliquely milled edge, 12h, 9.24g (Davis 64), toned yet lightly contact marked, very fine; Thomas Wood, Auctioneer & General Agent, Halfpenny, 1811, obliquely milled edge, 6h, 9.11g (Davis 65), lustrous, very fine (6)

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


i) Matthew Young died at the age of 68 on the 12th June 1838. During his lifetime he was a member of the Numismatic Society of London, and was highly esteemed for his quiet amiable manners, his honourable dealings, and his willingness and skill to assist collectors in their pleasing pursuits (see Gentleman's Magazine, July, 1838).

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