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439, Lot: 759. Estimate $200.
Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TOKENS, Staffordshire. Perry Barr. William Booth. CU Penny (35mm, 20.82 g, 12h). Dated 1811 (a copy produced circa 1900). PAYABLE BY WM.. BOOTH PERRY BAR around, in center, a sheaf of wheat / STAFFORDSHIRE (quadrilobe) 1811 (quadrilobe), in center, PENNY TOKEN in a double circle. W 956. EF, original red.


From the Quentin Brisley Collection of British Tokens.

The telling signs that this is a later copy are: The dots under M in WM.. are large and square, the 11s in the date are thick, and the N in TOKEN is not double-entered.