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LOT 3664
Group of Sixteen [16] Medals and Tokens 19th-20th century AD.
Comprising: various types, issues, denominations and metals; each held in a coin holder within an album sleeve. Condition as shown.(118gr total.).
Provenance
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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