British Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Wiltshire Coins and Paranumismatica

17th Century Tokens, Westbury, Will Cockell, Farthings, [16]58 (2), 0.90g/3h (N 5615a, this piece; BW. 2360), 0.98g/6h (N 5615 rev., different obv.; BW. 260); Thomas Hancocke, Farthings, 1656 (2), 1.06g/6h (N 5616; BW. 261), 0.67g/12h (N 5617 obv./5616 rev.; BW. 261); John Matravers, Farthing, 1669, 0.56g/12h (N –; BW. 263); Francis Pashent, Farthing, 1668, 1.02g/12h (N 5618; BW. 264) [6]. N 5618 good fine, N 5615 and 5616 fine, others in varied state, BW. 263 broken in two but rare £90-£120

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

View
Collection

Provenance: N 5615 R.A. Nott Collection [from Spink], Norweb Collection, 15 November 2000, lot 41 (part), C. Granger Collection, DNW Auction T14, 1 October 2014, lot 168 (part) [from R. Gladdle], bt N.A. Clark; N 5617 var C. Granger Collection, DNW Auction T14, 1 October 2014, lot 168 (part) [from Corbitt & Hunter], bt N.A. Clark; BW. 263 bt C.M. Rowe.

N 5618 only illustrated. Will Cockell, merchant tailor; John Matravers, Quaker. At the Trinity Quarter Sessions in Warminster in July 1671 Patient, a chandler, was indicted for ‘striking farthings...four of which were only worth a halfpenny’; pleading guilty at the subsequent Hilary Quarter Sessions in New Sarum in 1671/2 (OS), he was fined 3s 4d which he paid to the Sheriff in Court (Kempson, BNJ 1973, p.129)