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17th Century, Newport Pagnell, Rob: Hooton, Farthing, 1.14g/12h (Berry & Morley 131; BW. 100); Samuell Lambert, Halfpenny, scales, 3.08g/9h (Berry & Morley 132; SCBI Norweb 322, same dies; BW. 101) [2]. First only mediocre and pierced, but extremely rare, only one other specimen known to the cataloguer [County Museum, Aylesbury]; second very fine and on an unusually heavy flan (£60-80)

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

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Provenance:
B & M 131 bt Spink February 1977.
*B & M 132 bt Spink December 1970.

Robert Hooton (†1677); married Elizabeth King of Moulsea, 13 November 1655 (she †1682).
Samuel Lambert (b.1639); his wife’s name was Mary