British Tokens

17th Century Tokens, Buckinghamshire, Newton Longville, Jeffery Willison, Halfpenny, 1667, 2.05g/3h (BM 138; P-M 977, this piece; N 326b, this piece; D 105B). About fine; the only issue for the village £50-70

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

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Provenance: R.A. Nott Collection; Mrs R. Henry Norweb Collection; SNC September 1988 (5758); J. Maitland Collection, BDW Auction 8, 16 November 1994, lot 735 (part); P.J. Preston-Morley Collection, DNW Auction 52, 28-9 November 2001, lot 977.

Jeffery Willison (1641-1722), tobacconist, Quaker, freeholder at Stoke Hammond, wife’s name Joan (†January 1710)