LOT 3723
Canada, British Colonial. Bank of Upper Canada CU Penny. 1850-1857.
Heaton (Birmingham) mint. Dated 1857. John Pinches, engraver. Design by Benedetto Pistrucci. BANK OF UPPER CANADA ❀ 1857 ❀, St. George on horseback to right, holding sword with right hand and wearing plumed helmet and billowing cloak, slaying the dragon which falls to right; small R.K. & Co. beneath ground line to right / BANK ❀ TOKEN ❀ ONE • PENNY ❀, crown over crossed sword and anchor set on two cornucopiae; Union jack to upper right. Breton 719; Charlton PC-6; KM Tn3. Good Very Fine.(15.77gr, 33mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceFrom a private, UK, collection in the 1980s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
The initials 'R.K. & Co.' are for agent's mark of Rowe, Kentish, & Co., which is the agent that the Bank of Upper Canada used to place their orders.
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LOT 3723
Canada, British Colonial. Bank of Upper Canada CU Penny.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
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England. 'I W' of Fryer Lane, London CU Farthing Token. 1648-1672.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
London mint. [IOHN WICKES BAKER *?], initial W over IM, three cinquefoils in field / STREETES : STREET[E?], FRYER LANE in two lines, two cinquefoils above, one below. Dickinson -; cf. Williamson 3128 (THAMES STREETE); SCBI 59 -; UKDFD Recording Software Online 55733 (this token). 1.00gr, 16mm, 3h.
Near Very Fine. Apparently overstruck on an earlier type.
Found in Thames foreshore, 9 March 1985. Property of an Essex collector. -
England. Yorkshire, Whitby. Henry Sneaton AE Halfpenny. Dated 1667.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
★ HENRY • SNEATON • 1667 around, HIS HALF PENY in three lines and four pellets below / ★ IN • FLOWER • GATE • IN • WHITBY around, three ammonite fossils in centre. Dickinson 371; Boyne 327; W 371. 1.29gr, 18mm, 12h.
Near Fine. Very rare token that displays three ammonite fossils, reflective of the Arms of Whitby Abbey.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
England. 'Shield and Rose' Pb Token. 1425-1672.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Shield quartered by void and linear cross with central dot; cross-in-circle in two upper quarters / Tudor double rose of five and four petals. Mitchiner & Skinner -. 0.80gr, 11mm.
Very Fine. Pierced. Exceedingly rare and apparently unpublished.
Found from Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK, in the 1980s. Property of an Essex collector.
