Auction Catalogue

8 & 9 December 2014

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Ancient, British and World Coins, Medallions and Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 3025

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9 December 2014

Hammer Price:
£90

17th Century Tokens, LINCOLNSHIRE, West Deeping, Thomas Chambers, heart-shaped Halfpenny, 1668, 1.77g/12h (Smith 74; N –; BW. 66); Whitton, George Beale, Halfpence, 1667 (2, same dies), 1.66g/3h, 1.58g/3h (Smith 290; N 3001; D 269A) [3]. Second overstruck on a Halfpenny of Robert Hichcock of Chichester, 1667 [BW. Sussex 52], hence some weakness in legends, otherwise almost fine, others in varied state £100-150

Provenance: D.B. Griffiths Collection, Part IV, DNW Auction T14, 2 October 2013, lots 84, 85, additionally: first from R. Gladdle May 1982, second R.J. Carthew Collection, E. Levine Collection, Mrs Eileen Judson Collection, DNW Auction 57, 19 March 2003, lot 1033, last T.W. Townsend Collection, Spink Auction 28, 28 April 1983, lot 47, from Baldwin September 1987