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BRITISH TOKENS, Borough High Street, T.K.B. the rose and crowne, Farthing, 1651, 1.15g/6h (E 392; N 4874a, this piece; BW. 5); W.M.B. at the bores head, Farthing, 1649, 1.01g/6h (E 394; N 4848; BW. 418); George Bannister, Halfpenny, 1667, 2.19g/3h (E 395, this piece illustrated; N 4784a, this piece; BW. 6); Henry Bardge, Farthing, 0.99g/6h (E 396; N 4785b, this piece; BW. 7); Caleb Bigg, Farthing, 0.77g/7h (E 399, this piece illustrated; N 4787, this piece; BW. 8); Anthony Blake, Halfpenny, 1.39g/3h (E 400; N 4859, this piece; BW. 9) [6]. E 399 fine and very rare, others generally fair to fine £100-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Southwark 17th Century Tokens formed by the late Cole Danehower.

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Provenance: E 392 and 395 R.A. Nott Collection, Norweb Collection; E 394 P.D. Greenall Collection, Baldwin Auction 16, 30 October 1997, lot 267 (part) [from Seaby 1983], T. Coker Collection, DNW Auction 68A, 15 December 2005, lot 1842 (part) [from M. Trenerry]; E 396 Norweb Collection; E *399 and 400 J.E. Hodgkin Collection, Sotheby Auction, 22-3 April 1914, lot 220 (part), L. Clements Collection, Sotheby Auction, 31 May 1937, lot 81 (part) [from Baldwin], R.A. Nott Collection, Norweb Collection