444, Lot: 606. Estimate $75. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TOKENS, Middlesex. Spence’s. CU Halfpenny (29mm, 10.17 g, 11h). Dated 1796. COINING PRESS */ INSCRIBED TO COLLECTORS OF MEDALS * 1796, a coining press / LITTLE TURNSTILE HALFPEN NY 17 96, two boys at turnstile. Edge: Plain. D&H 743. EF, brown surfaces, the usual die break on obverse. Scarce.

From the Quentin Brisley Collection of British Tokens.