Dix Noonan Webb, the international coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists are delighted to be selling the largest copper coin ever issued in Great Britain. It willbe included in an auction of British Tokens on Thursday, October 3, 2019 at their auction rooms in central Mayfair - 16 Bolton St, London, W1J 8BQ. The extremely rare sixpencecoin which weighs 163g (the weight of 46 of todays 1p) and measures 48mm in diameter, dates from 1813 and is estimated at £2,000-3,000.

As Christopher Webb, Director and Head of the Coin department, Dix, Noonan, Webb explained: "This coin was produced in Birmingham to be used in a workhouse, only 10 specimensare now known and this one is arguably the finest available to commerce. It is being sold as part of a group of 19th Century Tokens from the Collection from the Late FrancisCokayne, and will be sold with a related affidavit as to its 19th century provenance."

He continues: "Believed to have been in circulation for a short time, the coins owe their probable existence to the temporary low price of copper relative to silver at thetime. The last time this token was on the open market, at the second Norman sale in 1905, it brought £17 10s (the equivalent of £2,100 today), easily the top price in thatauction."

The affidavit, signed by Emery Davies, reads:

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