Auction: 24123 - British and World Coins and Medals featuring the Pritchard Collection of 18th Century Provincial Tokens and Commemorative Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 926
ANGUSHIRE, Dundee, Alexander Molison, Halfpenny, 1795, PAYABLE AT THE WAREHOUSE OF ALEXR. MOLISON on edge, 6h, 11.10g (D&H 10), bagmarked and wiped, yet red to the legends, bolder very fine; another, as before, 6h, 10.71g (D&H 10), cleaned and darkened, very fine; Infirmary Founded, Dundee Halfpenny, 1794, engrained edge, 6h, 10.91g (D&H 16), extremely fine; another, as before, 6h, 11.88g (D&H 16), very fine; John Pilmer, Halfpenny, 1797, PAYABLE BY JOHN PILMER CHURCH LANE on edge, 6h, 11.73g (D&H 17), cleaned and with residue to the edge, pinmarked, otherwise about extremely fine; Flax and Hemp Imported, Halfpenny, 1797, plain edge, 6h, 10.11g, (D&H 18), cleaned and bagmarked, very fine; another, as before, 6h, 10.21g (D&H 18), cleaned and now with a blue tone, about very fine; Alexander Swap & Co, Halfpenny, 1797, PAYABLE AT THE WAREHOUSE OF ALEXR. SWAP & CO on edge, 6h, 11.34g (D&H 21), bagmarked, about very fine; Croom's Halfpenny, undated, plain edge, 6h, 9.89g (D&H 14), residual lustre and hints of red, extremely fine; Forfar, John Steele, Halfpenny, 1797, engrained edge, 6h, 10.40g (D&H 23), wiped and with staining to red surfaces, very fine; another, as before, rev. T under jamb of door, 6h, 11.28g (D&H 25), cleaned and heavily bagmarked, bolder fine; Montrose, Bissett & Son, Halfpenny, 1796, PAYABLE AT I. BISSETT & SON MONTROSE on edge, 6h, 8.91g (D&H 28), bagmarked and rubbed, about very fine; FIFESHIRE, Burntisland, Burntisland Vitriol Company, Halfpenny, 1797, obliquely milled edge, 11h, 10.37g (D&H 2), cleaned and with deposits, very fine; INVERNESSHIRE, Inverness, Mackintosh, Inglis and Wilson, Halfpenny, 1794, PAYABLE AT MACKINTOSH INGLIS & WILSON'S on edge, 6h, 10.73g (D&H 2), brilliant to chocolate brown surfaces, good extremely fine; LANARKSHIRE, Glasgow, Gilbert Shearer & Co, Halfpenny, MDCCXCI (1791), PAYABLE AT THE HOUSE OF GILBERT SHEARER & CO : on edge, 6h, 12.62g (D&H 2), scattering of contact marks, pleasing lustre and blue tone to dark brown surfaces, extremely fine; another, as before, CAMBRIDGE REDFORD AND HUNTINGDON on edge, 5h, 9.78g (D&H 3a), very fine (16)
The Pritchard Collection of 18th Century Provincial Tokens and Commemorative Medals
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