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

№ 84

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8 November 2007

Hammer Price:
£210

17th Century, Kent, Sandwich, Anne Atkins, Farthing, 1667, 0.88g/9h (N 2719; BW. 490); John Revell, Halfpenny, 1.51g/6h (N 2729; BW. 502); Sevenoaks, William Allen, Farthing, 1.33g/6h (N 2734; BW. 510); Richard Cronke, Farthing, 1658, 0.92g/6h (N 2735, this piece; BW. 512); Daniel Davis, Farthing, 1666, 0.78g/12h (N 2736, this piece; BW. 514); Thomas Greene, Farthing, 0.83g/12h (dies not in N; BW. 516), Halfpenny, 1668, 2.04g/6h (N 2738a, this piece; BW. 515); Nathaniel Owen, octagonal Halfpence, 1669 (2, same dies), 1.52g/12h, 1.39g/6h (N 2739; BW. 517) [9]. BW. 502 good fine, first BW. 517 fine but with tiny piercing, others mostly mediocre or fair, BW. 515 also pierced (£60-80)

Provenance:
BW. 490 bt M. Trenerry December 1993
BW. 502 and 517 at 1.52g V.J. Newbury Collection, bt Baldwin September 1997 [502], May 2003 [517]
BW. 510 bt A.W. Judd December 2000
BW. 512, 514 and 515 R.A. Nott Collection, Mrs R. Henry Norweb Collection, Spink Auction 95, 25 November 1992, lot 619 (part)
BW. 516 and 517 at 1.39g bt April 1992.

Anne Atkins, widow; John Revell, innholder, The Bell; William Allen, grocer; Richard Cronke, tailor; Daniel Davis, cheesemonger; Thomas Green, mercer; Nathaniel Owen, mercer, committed to Maidstone gaol for refusing to bear arms as a soldier