Auction Catalogue

8 November 2007

Starting at 1:30 PM

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British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 30

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8 November 2007

Hammer Price:
£50

17th Century, Cambridgeshire, Linton, John Bittin, Farthing, 1657, 0.78g/9h (N 6412; BW. 142); Littleport, Overseers, Farthing, 1668, 0.86g/12h (N 464; BW. 146); March, John Ingrom, Farthing, 1666, 0.91g/12h (N 470, this piece; BW. 153) [3]. First mediocre, second fine, third very fine but piece missing from edge of flan (£40-50)

Provenance:
BW. 146 D.L. Smith Collection, Sotheby Auction, 18-19 July 1985, lot 557 (part) [from Baldwin February 1975]
*BW. 153 R.A. Nott Collection, Mrs R. Henry Norweb Collection, SNC February 1988 (450).

John Bittin (b. 1632), innholder, The Griffin