Auction Catalogue

11 December 2002

Starting at 12:00 PM

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English, Scottish and World Coins. Tokens, Tickets and Passes. Historical and Art Medals. World Banknotes

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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№ 549

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11 December 2002

Hammer Price:
£210

17th Century Tokens, New King Street [St Giles in the Fields], Will[iam] Needes, Farthing, 0.85g/6h (BW. –; D –). Almost very fine, the only known specimen and previously unpublished (£90-120)

Provenance:Found in the R. Thames at Bankside, 1985;
bt R. Sharman October 1985.
The full reading is, mm. mullet both sides,
will:needes·in·new·king·:·, crooked billet, rev. street·in·st giles·in·ye·feilds, w·n in centre, pierced sexfoil flanked by pellets above and below