Auction Catalogue

11 April 2012

Starting at 12:00 PM

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British Tokens

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 103

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11 April 2012

Hammer Price:
£60

17th Century Tokens, Buckinghamshire, Thornborough, Edward Purssell, Halfpenny, 1668, 2.11g/6h (BM 177; P-M 990, this piece; N 340; BW. 134). Very fine and attractively patinated; the only issue for the village £60-80

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

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Provenance: P.J. Preston-Morley Collection, DNW Auction 52, 28-9 November 2001, lot 990 [from Corbitt & Hunter January 1970].

Edward Purcell (b. November 1644), mayor of Buckingham 1687 and 1697