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    A41, Lot 300:

    Pattern strikes for a series of early 19th Century Newcastle farthings

    A group of 15 struck patterns struck in white metal, a uniface die trial, and an incuse image of one of the main design elements, 17 pieces total, all “as made.”

     

    Reference: W. J. Davis. The 19th Century Token Coinage of Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. (1904 publication that became the standard reference for the 19th century token issues, copper and silver).

     

    The tokens (D, Davis number; B, Batty number) Most are rated Rr. D. 31 (As 19 rev/ 29 obv) is listed as Unknown with a line underneath indicating “In the British Museum.”

    •D. 18. (613). O: Arms of Newcastle-on-Tyne. JOHN BELL BOOKSELLER. R: A double-fronted shop, BELL over the door, 1815 under. 8.02 gm. 24 mm.

    •D. 19. (B. 619). O: As 18. R: NEWCASTLE TOKEN. 1815. 8.74 gm. 24 mm.

    •D. 20. (B. 620). O: As 18. R: A barge sailing. 9.31 gm. 25 mm.

    •D. 21. (618). O: As 18. R: ROBERT OLIVER NEWCASTLE around; 1815 in center; DRAPER QUAY around inner circle. 9.20 gm. 23 mm.

    •D. 21bis. (Cokayne’s designation). “Trial proof in vulcanite.” Uniface. O: As D 21. .79 gm. Octagonal. 18 mm. “Unique” as noted on Cokayne’s tag. (Note: Davis does not list the “bis” varieties.)

    •D. 22. (B. 616). O: As reverse of 18 (shop). R: FARTHING YOUNGEST SON OF FORTUNE. 9.35 gm. 23 mm.

    •D. 23. (B. 617). O: As reverse of 18. R: As obverse of 21. 8.98 gm. 23 mm.

    •D. 24. (B. 615). O: As reverse of 18. R: A PRODDY in a circle of pellets. 7.47 gm. 22.5 mm.

    •D. 25. (B. —. Note in Davis: “In the British Museum.”) O: As reverse of 21 (R OLIVER). R: As reverse of 19. 7.87 gm. 23 mm. (Note on Cokayne tag: “Ex Rare, only one other known in BM.”)

    •D. 26. (B. —). O: As obverse of 21. R: As reverse of 24 (PRODDY). 7.16 gm. 24 mm. (With later tag, probably Baldwin, with notation “Ex Newcastle Roll.”)

    •D. 27. (B. —. “In the British Museum”). O: A Turk’s head. R: As reverse pf 24. 7.12 gm. 24 mm.

    •D. 28. (B. 622). O: As 27. R: COALY TYNE in large letters around. 7.55 gm. 24 mm.

    •D. 29. (B. —. Davis note: “In Mr Norman’s Cabinet”) O: A barge sailing. R: As reverse of 28. 8.97 gm. 23 mm.

    •D. 29bis. (Cokayne’s designation). O: As reverse of 28. R: As reverse of 22. 9.46 gm. 24 mm.

    •D. 30. (B. 621) O: As reverse of 19. R: As reverse of 22 (“FORTUNE”). 8.98 gm. 23 mm.

    •D. 32. (B. —). O: A rose spray. R: TOKEN 1812. 6.17 gm. 22 mm.

    •Unnumbered. Turk’s head, as D. 27, D. 28,) engraved on a copper flan; accompanying tag, apparently Baldwins, notes “Turks Head, Copy of Newcastle Bell’s Private Token.” The reverse indicates the exchange in 1984. This piece accompanied the group but was added later.) 7.71 gm. 29 mm.

     

    Provenance:

    John Bell (1783-1864). A Newcastle-on-Tyne resident, bookseller and founder of a numismatic society.

    D. T. Batty (circa 1825-1896), author of an extensive series of publications on British trade tokens that became Batty’s Copper Coinage, a four volume collection of separate individual booklets that began appearing in 1868. (Cited by Davis as his source for the catalog listing.)

    F. E. Macfadyen of Newcastle, a stock broker and an original member of the British Numismatic Society. Sotheby’s sold his substantial collection in July 1907. Apparently F. W. Bowman acquired the group.

    Francis Cokayne (1871-1945) bought them from F. W. Bowman in 1926 for £45, (a substantial sum at the time). Each piece is accompanied by a tag in Cokayne’s hand showing the Davis number on the front and describing the purchase from Bowman on the back. He added to the group, as noted below. (The tags also have either “88” or “89” on them, perhaps a private inventory number?.
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    A38, Lot 303:

    COLONIAL AMERICA. New Jersey. St. Patrick farthing in silver. 7.63 gm. 25 mm. 117.7 grains. (Also catalogued as Irish coinage in the Spink Standard Catalog of Scotland, Ireland et al). Circa 1670. King David kneeling left, playing a harp, a crown above; FLOREAT : REX / St. Peter standing, holding a metropolitan cross in his left hand and with his outstretched right hand driving out the reptiles, a church behind and to the right; QVIESCAT PLEBS (no punctuation); edge engrailed vertically. Breen 210. W. 11520. Spink SC 6570. D&F 344. Nelson obv. and rev. first dies. Substantial detail, Very Good to Fine; simply well worn, not notably damaged, and with a fair amount of detail remaining; extremely rare; the reverse has faint indication that the piece was struck over another coin issue. The Newman sale by Heritage, January 3, 2008, sold Newman's example for $3360. The dies on that piece are the same as on this piece. The Newman piece was lighter at 99.5 grains and the NGC slab noted "Mount Removed" and assigned a grade of "Fine Details." Breen notes weight fluctuations on this type ranging between 77.8 to 123 grains.

    Red Book note: "Mark Newby…brought copper pieces believed…to have been struck in Dublin circa 1663 to 1672.…The coinage was made legal by the General Assembly of New Jersey in May 1682."

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    E29, Lot 164:

    IRELAND/COLONIAL AMERICA. Voce Populi coinage. Æ halfpenny. 7.4 gm. 28 mm. 96 grains. 1760. Laureate bust right (Square head) / Hibernia seated left; 1760 below. D&F 570. Nelson 2. Zelinka 4-B. Near Extremely Fine; struck on a broad flan; portrait somewhat soft but without the usual roughness; exceptional lustrous surfaces with a glossy milk chocolate patina. Superb example.

    Voce Populi copper halfpenny tokens: a fascinating and enigmatic copper issue from the mid-1700s in Ireland (and Colonial America?) Voce Populi coppers appear in several references on Colonial American coinage: The Official Redbook, A Guidebook of United States Coins 2017; Breen (1988), Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins; Bowers (2009), Whitman Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American Coins. Irish references cite them as well: Nelson (1905), The Coinage of Ireland in Copper, Tin and Pewter, 1460-1826; Dowle and Finn (1969), The Guidebook to the Coinage of Ireland From 995 AD to the Present Day. The 2015 Spink Standard Catalog, Coins of Scotland, Ireland and the Islands notes them as "a brief issue of tokens, the 'Voce Populi' series, [that] was produced in Dublin to supply the need for small change" but does not provide a listing of types. They were made by a supplier of buttons to the Irish army, a Mr. Roche of Dublin. Who is shown on the obverse? George II? George III? One of the Jacobite pretenders? The Jacobites were Catholic as were the Irish, so there was sympathy for their cause. The standard reference by Jerry Zelinka was published in the October 1976 issue of The Colonial Newsletter. In addition to background discussion he provides a detailed description of die varieties-12 obverse and 11 reverse-in a listing that is supplemented by a chart showing die combinations. (Unfortunately I am unaware of any reprint of this article.) Did they circulate in Colonial America? Dr. Philip Mossman, authority on American Colonial Coinage and past editor of The Colonial Newsletter who has kindly helped me with background on these pieces, keeps a running total record of pieces found in the US and the Maritimes that could conceivably have come to North America during colonial times. The number is small ("a census of 13, most with a definite east coast recovery history so they well could have arrived as someone's pocket change but not as a shipment"). Ken Bressett, one of the Red Book authors when I asked him at the ANA in Colorado Springs about these pieces in Colonial America, smiled as he suggested no real evidence but no objection if someone felt they should be part of Colonial American numismatic history. That they are fascinating and unusual with a great variety of manufacturing quirks is undebatable.

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