245, Lot: 508. Estimate $100. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRADE TOKENS, Middlesex. Spence’s. CU Halfpenny Token (30mm, 10.73 g, 6h). Dated 1795. BEFORE THE REVOLUTION, man seated left in prison, gnawing on bone; date in exergue / HALFPENNY, guillotine. D&H 855a. Superb EF, brown surfaces with underlying luster.

From the Norman Frank Collection.