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[British Numismatics]. Reference Works on British Numismatics. Includes: Akerman's Tradesmen's Tokens, Current in London and Its Vicinity between the Years 1648 and 1672; Boyne's Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales, and Ireland; Sweeney's A Numismatic History of the Birmingham Mint; a nice set of Ruding's Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain (third edition); both editions of Burn's A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern, and Coffee-House Tokens Current in the Seventeenth Century (front board of first detached, second edition ex-library); Davis's The Nineteenth Century Token Coinage (a bit worn); a duplicated typescript index to Batty; the 1964 edition of Peck's English Copper, Tin and Bronze Coins in the British Museum; Nelson's The Coinage of William Wood (offprint); another copy of Nelson on Wood, this time extracted from the British Numismatic Journal and bound with Caldecott's work on The Spanish Dollar in the British West Indies; and Nelson's The Coinage of Ireland, in Copper, Tin, and Pewter (BNJ extract, bound). Generally very good unless noted otherwise. Includes some better titles. Estimate $400. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society.
Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot16033 (realized $288).
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