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17th Century, High Wycombe, Thomas Wheatly, Farthing, wheatsheaf, 0.87g/3h (Berry & Morley 233; BW. 177C); Robert Whitton, Farthing, stag left, 0.94g/12h (Berry & Morley 234; SCBI Norweb 362, same dies; BW. 178) [2]. First with minor surface deposits, about fine and flan a trifle bent, extremely rare, only two other specimens in private hands known to the cataloguer; second about very fine and patinated (£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 233 bt S Monks September 1996, ‘a metal detector find.’

*B & M 234 Glendining Auction, 11-12 July 1929, lot 361 (part);
F E Baker Collection, October 1977 [from Spink, September 1929].

Robert Whitton (†1711), innkeeper of The Antelope, formerly located in the High Street, High Wycombe, and now a jewellers shop; he was an alderman for 30 years and also served as mayor four times, in 1663, 1670, 1685 and 1686; he married Katharine Bradshaw, daughter of Nicholas Bradshaw, the leader of the Royalist party in Wycombe in the 1650s and early 1660s, in August 1656 (she †1718). An upstairs room at the Antelope witnessed the birth of what became the Royal Military College, now at Sandhurst, on 4 May 1799

B & M 233 two other specimens in private hands, not one