Auction Catalogue

16 March 2005

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Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes, to include the Professor Jeffrey P Mass Collection of English Short Cross Coins, 1180-1247 (Part II) and British Medals from the James Spencer Collection (Part III)

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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Lot

№ 1114

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16 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£350

17th Century, Kent, Bredgar, Thomas Reader, Halfpenny, 1.77g/6h (N 6418; D London 393A). Fine, extremely rare; the only issue for the village and the best of the three specimens known to the cataloguer (£200-250)

Provenance:
Bt D. Mason October 2000.

Thomas Reader, carpenter; see R.H. Thompson, ‘An Armorial Token from ‘Breadgate’,
BNJ 1996, pp.134-5. The only other specimens traced are those formerly in the Norweb collection (ex Horace Hird) and the Dora Harris/Frank Sedgwick piece