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Auction: 8017 - Important British 18th Century Tokens
Lot: 28

Dorset, Sherborne, Pretor, Pew & Whitty, Halfpenny, 1796, the company´s bank building, two-headed eagle crest and motto above, rev. inscription and date, edge PAYABLE AT THE BANK etc. (DH.8), good extremely fine, lustrous, rare Estimate £ 100-120 The surname of the firm´´s senior partner is rendered as PRETER. Dykes (BNJ, 2005, pp. 136-7) believes this was intended to be a genuine issue but that it was rejected because of the misspelling

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