Coins, Tokens, Historical Medals, Cabinets & Books

Toplis, J., Seventeenth Century Tokens of Nottinghamshire, Nottingham, 1884, 15pp, interleaved, MS annotations and corrections, engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved plates of tokens from Toplis’s collection (Manville 512); Toplis, J., List of Unpublished Nottinghamshire Seventeenth Century Tokens, reprinted from NC 1884, 4pp; Preston-Morley, P.J., and Pegg, H., A Revised Survey of the Seventeenth Century Tokens of Nottinghamshire, London, 1983, 63pp, 8 plates (Manville 1506), hardbound, first free endpaper signed by Harry Pegg, extra notes on the issuers of Mansfield and Southwell tipped-in; Thompson, R.H. [with Dickinson, M.J.], Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles: 44, The Norweb Collection, Tokens of the British Isles, 1575-1750, Part IV, Norfolk to Somerset, London, 1993, lvii + 218pp, 50 plates (Manville 1754) [Lot]. First in full leather overprinted in black, marbled endpapers, second in brown paper cover, others in publishers’ blue cloth; all the specialist references for the county £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Nottinghamshire 17th Century Tokens formed by Andrew Knighton.

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Provenance: First ex libris John Toplis, Ted Craige, Kolbe Auction 14 (Crestline), 13 August 1983, lot 337 [from W.C. Sanders, New Haven, CT], David Griffiths, DNW Auction T9, 6 October 2010, lot 4270 (part); second ex libris B.A. Seaby Ltd, Glendining Auction, 10 June 1987, lot 128 (part), David Griffiths, DNW Auction T9, 6 October 2010, lot 4270 (part)