Auction Catalogue

30 September 2021

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British Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Wiltshire Coins and Paranumismatica

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№ 49

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30 September 2021

Hammer Price:
£170

17th Century Tokens, Purton, William Jaffries, Farthing, 0.84g/12h (Shaw, TCSB December 2008, p.184; N –; D –). Excavated, a little surface verdigris and would benefit from judicial cleaning, otherwise fine, extremely rare; this and the next believed the only issues for the village £200-£300

Provenance: With G. Ward 2009; bt N.A. Clark October 2012.

It is thought that the issuer, who married Mary Eateall at Purton in July 1667, was a cordwainer; sold with further documentation