Sawbridgeworth Penny 1801 – £12,000 at Baldwin’s.
Coin dealer Patrick Deane first became interested in 17th and 18th century trade tokens in 1970 when working at Spink and Son. He sold his first collection of around 1250 pieces in 1984.
Twenty years or so elapsed before the collection was re-started when Deane was given the opportunity to acquire pieces from the celebrated Victorian collection of Francis Cokayne – including those from several cabinets that were ‘lost’ and unaccounted for since the 1940s.