British Tokens

City of London, Threadneedle Street, Thomas Blagrave, Halfpenny, 2.36g/12h (N 7749; Berry p.110; BW. 3135); Wood Street, at the mitre and rose, Penny, 2.73g/12h (N –; Berry p.118; BW. 3534) [2]. About fine, second rare £50-70

Provenance: First F. Sedgwick Collection, Spink Auction 51, 16 April 1986, lot 51 (part), bt Baldwin; *second exchanged with Seaby 1980.

Thomas Blagrave (†1693), vintner, The Crown, 1663-7, apprenticed 1642; the issuer of the second token is almost certainly Thomas Ailay, vintner, The Mitre, 1666-81