Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

Gloucestershire, Bristol, City Farthings, undated issue by T. Simon for P. Blondeau (3), 3.34g/12h (N 1451T, this piece, recté 3.34g; BW. 11), 3.98g/6h, 3.35g/6h (both N 1452; BW. 11) [3]. First fine and the die combination very rare, others better but third with surface verdigris on obverse £70-£90

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

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Provenance: N 1451 W.J. Faulkner Collection, Glendining Auction, 21-3 May 1940, lot 127 (part), bt Baldwin March 1969; *N 1452 at 3.98g bt February 1971; N 1452 at 3.35g bt Seaby 1970.

It should be noted that the weights for some Bristol tokens with the T (Thompson collection) suffix, in this and the following lots, differ minutely from those recorded in SCBI 38, which infers that the equipment used to record them differed from the Mettler balance used by Matthew Weait at Spink to record the weights of Norweb tokens