LOT 3648
France AE Jeton. Time of Louis XI le Prudent, 1461-1483.
Issue of Dauphiné. Contemporary imitation? (Lis) AVE (voided five-rayed star) ᙏARIA (voided five-rayed star) GRACA, dolphin to left / Legend around cross in form of four keys clockwise with central motif and lis in angles. For a similar example see Feuardent, Jetons 11300. Near Very Fine.(4.26gr, 27mm.).
ProvenanceFound Cambridgeshire, UK.
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England. Holborn AE Halfpenny Token. 1649-1672.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
London (Holborn) mint. Richard Underwood, issuer. ✿ IN HOLBORN • POVLTERER, hare running to left / RICHARD UNDERWOOD HIS • HALFE ✿ PENNY ✿ • R V E • in five lines. Dickinson 1475. 0.70gr, 18mm, 12h.
Fair.
Found on various UK sites since 1974. Property of an Essex collector (collector's ticket included). -
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England. 'Cross and Pellets' Pb Token. 1425-1490.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
London or Paris mint. Mitchiner Type Mb. IHC (retrograde) in Gothic within anti-clockwise ray border / Cross with dot in each angle; al within anti-clockwise ray border. Mitchiner & Skinner type M, 50 var. (IHC not retrograde; clockwise ray border). 0.69gr, 12mm.
Very Fine.
Found from Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK, in the 1980s. Property of an Essex collector.
The 'cross and pellets' tokens differ from the other series of fifteenth-century tokens found in London by virtue of their close links with a series of French tokens. They have been found with not quite equal frequency in London and in Paris. The uniformity of design suggests centralised production control (such as by a guild) but the range of symbols - religious, merchant, brothels - suggests a wide range of users. -
Crusaders PB Tessera or Token. Circa 10th century or later.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Tree with three branches within circular rayed border / Six-rayed star within circular rayed border. 2.89gr, 16mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
