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    A44, Lot 323:

    Surrey 4bis (R). Weybridge. Silver shilling. 3.77 gm. 26.3 mm. A barrel; I BUNN & CO WEYBRIDGE IRON WORKS around / ONE SHILLING TOKEN DOWGATE WHARF LICENSED, across center and around. Dalton 4 (R). Uncirculated; choice and particularly attractive.

     

    Digging deeper in the token literature Surrey 4, a silver shilling token, exists in two sizes. The basic piece is listed as Surrey 4 (R) in Dalton and in the Withers 2010 token reference The Token Book—TB1, a single volume by Paul and.Bente Withers at Galata Print Ltd. that covers the main 17th, 18th and 19th century token issues using the numbering systems in the traditional references. While they included additional information in various places, they did not refer to a variety of Surrey 4. Its existence was first noted in a 1957 publication, long after the original cataloging of the series was standardized in Dalton’s 1922 The Silver Token Coinage Mainly Issued Between 1811 and 1812. 

    Thanks to a detailed note from a serious collector of the series, I pulled two other references off the shelf—Waters, Notes on the Silver Tokens of the Nineteenth Century, 1957, and Mays, Tokens of Those Trying Times, 1991 where a variety of Surrey 4 is listed but not photographed and with the brief note “Struck on a large flan.”

    Waters’ note is similar: “One is known on a larger flan in silver.” Lot 322 is about 2 mm larger than the typical silver token and the denticles around the outer edge are longer than on other examples of this piece. If you compare the photo in the Auction 44 catalog and the photo in Dalton’s 1922 catalog you can see the size difference in the length of the denticles. (Waters was unaware of the piece in 1922 and in the interleaved copy of Dalton that Waters donated to a library in 1932 his extensive notations on the series does not mention this Surrey 4 variety.)

    The collector who wrote has an example of each in his collection. He notes that his basic piece, Surrey 4, is “about 22 mm. and his large flan variant is close to 26.5 mm. The lot in our sale measures 26.31 mm. It is also heavy for the series. Close inspection of this piece compared to the photograph in Dalton suggests the same die was used for both pieces. 

    How rare is it? “One” is too conservative. In addition to the piece in the collection noted above, there is a record of DNW selling an example. Baldwins sold one in 2020 (“good very fine,” 26 mm.  and there have been a few more offered over time. While “one example” undercounts the number of pieces struck on a large flan, the piece is definitely rare and more rare than the usual “Surrey. D 4” piece. 

    Trial or proof piece? Struck at a different time than the ordinary Dalton 4 piece? It is a beautiful piece, well struck on a quality silver planchet.
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