British Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Wiltshire Coins and Paranumismatica

17th Century Tokens, Salisbury, Edward Penny, Halfpenny, 1671, 1.69g/6h (N –; BW. 215); Charles Phelps, Farthing, 0.72g/12h (N 5573; BW. 217); J[ohn] Poore, Farthing, 0.89g/6h (N 5583; BW. 218); Tho. Ray, Farthing, 0.53g/12h (N –; D 218A); T[homas] R[iddiall], Farthing, 1657, 1.06g/12h (N 5582; BW. 166); Arther Sanders, Farthing, 1656, 1.03g/6h (N 5576; BW. 223); Henry Seward, Farthing, 0.75g/12h (N 5577, this piece; BW. 225); Simon Rolfe, Halfpenny, 1666, 1.47g/3h (N 5574; BW. 222); Thomas Shergold, Halfpenny, 1666, 1.75g/3h (N 5578; BW. 226); Thomas Tinham, Halfpenny, 1667, 0.88g/12h (N –; D 226A); William Viner, Farthing, 1657, 0.95g/6h (N 5579; BW. 227); Chris Willmott, Farthing, 1666, 1.25g/9h (N 5580; BW. 228) [12]. N 5583 and last four fair, others about fine and better but BW. 215 with attempted piercing, several rare £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Wiltshire Coins, Tokens and Paranumismatica formed by the late David Ward.

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Provenance: N 5577 R.A. Nott Collection, Norweb Collection, Spink Auction 149, 15 November 2000, lot 30 (part), bt N.A. Clark August 2007; N 5579 bt N.A. Clark November 2016; *D 218A bt February 2019; D 226A bt N.A. Clark June 2009.

Edward Penny, butcher; Charles Phelps, confectioner; John Poore, Barnard’s Cross; Thomas Ray, linen draper, mayor 1652; Arthur Sanders, tobacconist; Henry Seward, grocer; Thomas Shergold, innholder, The Crown; Thomas Tinham, pewterer; William Viner (†1677), vintner, Cheese Cross, mayor 1668; Christopher Willmott (†January 1691/2), clothier, Silver street. At the Trinity Quarter Sessions in Warminster in July 1671 Rolfe, a clothier and a burgess in 1656, was indicted for ‘striking halfpennies...four of which were only worth a penny’; pleading guilty at the subsequent Hilary Quarter Sessions in New Sarum in 1671/2 (OS), he was exonerated (Kempson, BNJ 1973, p.129)