Auction Catalogue
17th Century, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, Oxford, L. King, Farthing (Leeds –; BW. 150). Local workmanship, competently executed, obverse fine, reverse very fine, the dies unpublished (£50-70)
Provenance:
J Maitland Collection, BDW Auction 8, 16 November 1994, lot 774 [from Format, April 1989];
P Preston-Morley Collection.
This curious piece has certain similarities with other undoubtedly locally-made tokens (cf. BNJ 1981, pl.xxiii) and was probably copied from King’s second issue (Leeds 64; Norweb 3701)
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