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18th Century, Slough, John Peckham, Halfpenny, 1795, in bronzed-copper, arms of the Peckham family, rev. phoenix, slough, bucks, halfpenny token around, edge plain, 11.66g/12h (DH 27). Usual flaw on obverse rim, good extremely fine and nicely patinated, rare (£80-100)

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

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Provenance:
Bt Spink January 1970.

Exhibition:
British Numismatic Society, 22 April 1980.

John Peckham (†September 1830), alchemist and numismatist, who owned, among other coins, a Brutus ‘Ides of March’ denarius; he was an early friend of William Till, who bought his collection post mortem