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Unofficial Farthings, NORFOLK, Great Yarmouth, a uniface trial piece in copper, possibly for S. Lessy, arms of the borough, edge plain, 22mm, 4.53g (BWS p.133, and pl. 30, this piece). Very fine and extremely rare, believed the only known example
£80-100

Provenance: D.G. Vorley Collection; T. Pardoe Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 31, 17 September 1997, lot 469 [from D.G.V. February 1990]; W.J. Noble Collection, Part II, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 61B (Melbourne), 3-4 August 1999, lot 255.

The status of this piece remains uncertain; it could pre-date 1820, in which case it might be identified with the 1811 Yarmouth token issues by Hunton and Reynolds. Certainly the foreparts of the lions bear a close likeness to those issues, rather than to those of Lessy