18th Century Tokens, Suffolk, Woodbridge, Robert Loder, Penny, 1796, bust of Thomas Sekford three-quarters right, rev. arms of the Sekford family, loder edge, 23.15g/6h (DH 15). Extremely fine and nicely patinated, scarce (£40-60)

Provenance:
SNC May 1972 (5715)
Mrs Eileen Judson Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 57, 19 March 2003, lot 1082.

Robert Loder, printer, bookseller and stationer, author of Statutes and Ordinances of Sekford’s Almshouses. Thomas Sekford (1516-88), of Sekford Hall, built the sessions house at Woodbridge and funded a series of maps of the counties of England and Wales, published in the 1570s