British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

Metropolitan Middlesex, New King Street [St Giles in the Fields], Will Needes, Farthing, 0.85g/6h (N –; D –; Sharman, SNC December 2011, p.135, this piece). Almost very fine, ‘river’ patina, extremely rare; believed the only known specimen
£150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, 17th Century Tokens from the Collection of Quentin Archer.

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Provenance: Found in the R. Thames at Bankside, 1985; Mrs Dora Harris Collection, DNW Auction 56, 11 December 2002, lot 549 [from R. Sharman October 1985]