Auction Catalogue

11 April 2012

Starting at 12:00 PM

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British Tokens

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 5

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11 April 2012

Hammer Price:
£130

17th Century Tokens, Bedfordshire, Bedford, Phillip Nicholles, Farthing, 1659, 0.44g/6h (GO 16.2; N –; BW. 16). Fine and clear, very rare; superior to the illustration in GO, wherein only two specimens are noted £120-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection.

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Provenance: Morton & Eden Auction 23, 28-9 November 2006, lot 375 (part).

Phillip Nicholles (†April 1696), grocer, chamberlain 1656, bailiff 1657, wife’s name Susan (†November 1661)