Post Your United Kingdom (Great Britain) Coin Acquisitions.

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Another one of those boxes we have ticked Scarcer Die pairing Obverse 1 Reverse C Shallow Portrait With the smaller reverse. Taken a while to find one and in a condition acceptable . Pictures always my nemesis but its all of AU and always happy when I tick a box which seems to take a lifetime . 1928 .500 Silver Halfcrown Davies 1703. Now the search is on for Dies 2+B1

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Picked up this beauty after an auction a couple of weeks ago. 15 leaf variety with practically full lustre and original colour.

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PCGS PR-66 quite a nice coin in hand and the nicest out of 6 Ive seen so far.

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This is one of four Provincial British Halfpennies that arrived this afternoon in the post. It is the finest of the four, the obverse looks to be on fire from the glowing luster around the devices the reverse is an eerie, alien like mix of molted colors, going from green to red.

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But who's this Deane guy?

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Patrick Deane first became interested in tokens in 1970 when he started working at Spink and Son Limited when they were coin dealers. He was given the task of running their token department with the help of Andre de Clermont, who had previously been in charge of it and had an extremely good knowledge of the series.

When Patrick left Spink in 1973 and went on his own as a coin dealer, he started to collect the Eighteenth Century Token Series or Conder tokens as they are known in America, and formed a very good collection with many rare and interesting pieces. By 1984 he had amassed some 1,250 pieces and decided that there was too much competition from other collectors to buy the rarest and best pieces! He priced each piece in the collection and offered the tokens to the four main collectors at that time. They bought about half the collection and then over the next couple of years Patrick disposed of the remaining pieces.

Twenty years or so elapsed before the collection was re-started, when a chance meeting with Paul Dawson of Spink gave him the opportunity to start acquiring some extremely interesting pieces from the Cokayne collection that were appearing on the market at that time. Patrick's enthusiasm for the Series returned and he started to collect again, creating an even larger collection than before, of about 2,500 pieces.

There are many unique pieces including some extremely interesting uniface trial strikings in this second collection. He was also very fortunate to buy the Sawbridgeworth Penny from the Baldwin Basement Collection for half what he was expecting to pay. This piece is in the first catalogue, BB part I, and is probably the star of his collection. This token, one of 5 in existence, holds the record price for any 18th. c. tradesmen's token sold - in the Noble Collection auctioned in Melbourne in July 1988 a similar example sold for A$60,000!

In the ensuing years the collection grew and Patrick has now reached a stage in his life when he has decided to release the collection and accordingly has chosen to give A H Baldwin's the task of handling the auction sale to disperse this magnificent collection of eighteenth century tokens onto the market.

Also of note is a most impressive collection of Devonshire seventeenth century tokens - largest to come to the market for many years. Patrick grew up on a farm in Devon but decided that was not the life for him so left to come and work in London. This, then, is a collection formed of the area which from where he comes, and indeed, at the time of writing, still lives.

He hopes that collectors from around the world will be excited by this offering of tokens from his collection and as he says 'there will be something here for everybody to bid on'.