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Auction: 8017 - Important British 18th Century Tokens
Lot: 205

Yorkshire, Leeds, Samuel Birchall, Halfpenny, 1795, family arms and crest, rev. fleece suspended, edge UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . X . (DH.—, cf. 28), some of the beading weak on each side, otherwise almost mint state with much original colour, believed unique Estimate £ 300-400 The edge type was created for use with the ´Washington president´´ One Cent patterns of 1791 (DH. Middlesex 1049-50; Baker 15-16), and is the 114th known edge variety for Birchall´´s Halfpenny

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