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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: 898

WARWICKSHIRE, Birmingham, George Hollington Barker, Halfpenny, MDCCXCVII (1797), BIRMINGHAM HALFPENNY, shield of arms, GHB cypher below, rev. FACTA ÆQUATO EXAMINE LIBRAT, figure of Justice standing, dividing MDCC XCII, plain edge, 12h, 13.00g (D&H 68), some minor pinmarking to the fields, otherwise brilliant to chocolate brown surfaces, much as struck, scarcely encountered in commerce and thus rare

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

George Hollington Barker, of No. 7, The Square, Birmingham, a well-known solicitor had dies sunk to produce this private halfpenny token. This example, was struck from the second reverse die prepared, this is identified by the inclusion of the word 'LIBRAT' on the reverse.

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£220

Starting price
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