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4 & 5 May 2021

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Lot

№ 757

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5 May 2021

Hammer Price:
£550

Wiltshire, Devizes, Stephen Bayly, Farthing, 1668, 0.73g/12h (N 5453; BW. 64); John Fry, Farthings (3), undated, reads frey, 1.05g/12h (N 5454; BW. 65), 1664 (2), 1.32g/12h, 0.89g/9h (both N 5455; BW. 66); Francis Goulding, Farthing, 0.80g/12h (N 5456; BW. 67); John Hammond, Farthing, 1.14g/3h (N 5457; BW. 70); Edward Hope, Farthing, 1652, 0.67g/3h (N 5458; BW. 68); Grace Naish, Farthings, 1652 (2), 1.00g/6h (N 5460; BW. 71), 0.84g/6h (N 5461; BW. 71); Francis Paradice, Farthing, 1669, 0.86g/3h (N 5462; BW. 72); John Slade, Farthing, 1666, 1.04g/9h (N 5463; BW. 73); Richard Slade, Farthing, 1663, 0.72g/6h (N 5465; BW. 74); William Somner, Farthings, 1652 (3), 0.98g/6h (N 5466, this piece cited; BW. 76), 1.18g/6h, 1.16g/6h (both N 5467; BW. 76); William Stevens, Farthing, 1663, 1.80g/12h (N 5468; BW. 77); Richard Watton, Farthings (3), undated, reads wotten, 1.30g/6h (N 5469; BW. 80), 1666 (2), 0.75g/12h, 0.65g/12h (both N 5470; BW. 79) [19]. N 5455 at 1.32g and 5469 very fine, others generally fine; an excellent town group, including all the issuers £300-£400

Provenance: N 5455 at 0.89g and 5470 at 0.65g J.L. Short Collection, Spink Auction 90, 16 March 1992, lot 643 (part); N 5457 bt R. Gladdle March 2001; N 5460 bt I. Fine October 1971; N 5462 and 5467 at 1.16g M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part III, Spink Auction 62, 19 November 1987, lot 557 (part), J. Maitland Collection, BDW Auction 8, 16 November 1994, lot 788 (part) [from S.E. Schwer December 1987]; N 5465 bt S.H. Monks January 1998; N 5467 at 1.18g bt J.G. Scott April 1999; others J. Maitland Collection, BDW Auction 8, 16 November 1994, lot 788 (part) [5453 from M.J. Dickinson January 1991, 5454 and 5463 from R. Jeffery March 1991, *5455 from R. Jeffery February 1991, 5456 and 5469 from M.J. Dickinson September 1987, 5458 from M.J. Dickinson April 1992, 5461 from S.E. Schwer October 1990, 5466 from S.R. Porter October 1991, 5468 from R. Jeffery April 1991, 5470 from M.J. Dickinson May 1987]