Wright Collection - Australian and New Zealand Tokens
Lot 2099 SESSION 7 (7.30pm Wednesday) Wright Collection - Australian and New Zealand Tokens
Estimate $15,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $16,500
PEEK AND CAMPBELL - SYDNEY TEA STORES, Sydney penny, 1852 (A.427A; Heyde 247/2) five lines of legend on obverse, reverse as A427. One of the rarest tokens by J.C. Thornthwaite. Even brown tone, very fine and excessively rare, the finest of two known.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 57 (lot 555, from an English collection, previously unknown to the market). The other example recorded by G. Heyde was last sold by us in Sale 29 (lot 2806) and is now in the Moran Collection.
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