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№ 936

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15 June 2017

Hammer Price:
£120

BRITISH TOKENS, Coopers Yard, Peter Delamotte, Farthing, 1667, 1.03g/6h (E 572, this piece; N –; D –). Struck on a bar end, some weakness and a spot on reverse, otherwise very fine with ‘river’ patina; the only issue for the location and in all probability the only known specimen £120-150

Provenance: Found in the R. Thames; R.A. Shuttlewood Collection, Spink Auction 151, 15 March 2001, lot 683 (part) [from N.L. Wetton]; bt Baldwin