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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: 895

WARWICKSHIRE, Peter Kempon's Penny, 1796, view of Caesar's Tower, Kenilworth, MDCCXCVI in exergue, rev. PK monogram, I PROMISE TO PAY ON DEMAND THE BEARER ONE PENNY on edge, 12h, 25.74g (D&H 6), glossy lustre and with much red to the edges of devices, good extremely fine; another, as before, 12h, 21.90g (D&H 6), with a handsome lustre to light brown surfaces, good extremely fine; Birmingham, Peter Kempson's Penny, 1796, lion sleeping in cave, rev. TK cypher within floral wreath, I PROMISE TO PAY ON DEMAND THE BEARER ONE PENNY on edge, 12h, 26.21g (D&H 20), lustrous and toned to brown surfaces, extremely fine; another, as before, 12h, 26.12g (D&H 20), flashy red to the edges of devices, good very fine; Thomas Welch's Penny, 1795, shield of arms, TW cypher, I PROMISE TO PAY ON DEMAND THE BEARER ONE PENNY on edge, 12h, 26.83g (D&H 21), faintest of pinmarking to otherwise brilliant brown fields, good extremely fine; Thomas Wyon's Penny, 1796, obelisk, rev. bouquet and TW cypher below, I PROMISE TO PAY ON DEMAND THE BEARER ONE PENNY on edge, 12h, 22.21g (D&H 25), lightly marked yet with areas of red, extremely fine; another, as before, 12h, 21.97g (D&H 25), some contact marks to brown surfaces, about extremely fine; Benjamin Jacob's Penny, 1798, man with scales behind counter, rev. BN JACOB AUCTIONEER IRONMONGER . & C WELCH CROSS BIRMINGHAM, hand with gavel, plain edge, 6h, 18.80g (D&H 31), touch of rub to the very highest points, otherwise lustrous and mostly mint red, near as struck (8)

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

i) 'The high relief of the design of the obverse would render this unsuitable for currency. The reverse is remarkably neat. T. Wyon, senior, was in all probability the die-sinker, as he was employed by Kempson'

S. H. Hamer, 'Notes on the Private Tokens, Their Issuers and Die-Sinkers', Part 2, British Numismatic Journal, Volume 2, 1906

vi) 'Benjamin Jacob, chaser, engraver, auctioneer and appraiser, Hockley Road, Birmingham, issued nine dozen penny tokens. As the number was so small, and also as they were not struck until the years after the government issue of copper twopenny and penny-pieces, the probability is that they were not intended for currency.'

S. H. Hamer, 'Notes on the Private Tokens, Their Issuers and Die-Sinkers', Part 2, British Numismatic Journal, Volume 2, 1906



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