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17th Century, High Wycombe, Fransis Ingeby, Farthing, 1666, 0.96g/3h (Berry & Morley 220; BW. 166); John Juson, Halfpenny, 1669, chequer board, 1.77g/6h (Berry & Morley 221; BW. 167) [2]. First fine, second almost very fine and patinated, both rare (£90-120)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Tokens.

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Provenance:
B & M 220 found at Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, 1994;
bt R Gladdle August 1994.

*B & M 221 Glendining Auction, 11-12 July 1929, lot 361 (part);
F E Baker Collection, October 1977 [from Spink, September 1929].

Francis Ingeby, lace buyer, also churchwarden in 1675 and 1677, lived at Skinners Mead, High Wycombe; he married Dorothea Weedon of Hughenden, May 1666 (she †1719). The issuer was still alive in October 1691.
John Juson (†1691), innkeeper of The Chequers, formerly at the corner of White Hart Street and Church Street, High Wycombe; he married a widow, Mary Littell, in February 1666