Coins, Paper Money, Tokens and Historical Medals

17th Century Tokens, DORSET, Lyme Regis, Borough Farthing, 1669, 3.12g/12h (N 922; BW. 91-2); GLOUCESTERSHIRE, Bristol, City, square Farthing [1577+], 3.20g/11h (N 1448; BW. 22); HAMPSHIRE, Southampton, Cornelius Macham, Halfpenny, 1667, 1.99g/12h (N 2013; BW. 195); KENT, Yalding, Daniell Chitttenden, Halfpenny, 1668, 2.03g/12h (N 2781; BW. 588); LONDON (City), Soper Lane, N.I.V., Farthing, 0.94g (N –; D –); SURREY, Farnham, Jam[e]s Hunt, Farthing, 1.14g/6h (E 88; N 4581; BW. 79) [6]. Third and fourth good fine but latter pierced, others in varied state £80-100

Provenance: T.A.T. Winsborough Collection [first A Good Collection of Dorset 17th Century Tokens, the property of a Lady, Wessex NS Auction 120 (Bournemouth), 1 June 2010, lot 249 [from D. Sadler], second found in East Kent, third bt October 1985, fourth D.F. Payne Collection, bt T. May, fifth found by M. Sleeman near Winchester 1998, bt July 1999, last bt H. Nielsen].

The fifth piece is perhaps unpublished; the obverse is virtually illegible but the late owner’s ticket suggests that the piece was issued at the Green Dragon