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)

17th Century, Cambridgeshire, Sutton, John Clement, Farthing, 1656, 1.16g/6h (BW. 176 and Kent 547); Huntingdonshire, Earith, Thomas Johnson, Farthing, 1.07g/6h (D 3A; BW. Kent 254) [2]. First good fine but with flan clip, second fine (£50-70)

Provenance:
First Carnegie Museum Collection, Spink Auction 43, 18 April 1985, lot 262 (part), SCMB November 1985 (M 337), R. Hogarth Collection [bt Spink February 2002]
*Second Sir G.E. Duveen Collection, R. Hogarth Collection [bt Baldwin May 2002].

The first token is tentatively attributed to Sutton, Cambridgeshire, on account of W.G. Searle’s note of a specimen being found there; the second token was first tentatively attributed to Earith, Huntingdonshire, by K.A. Jacob (SCMB January 1972, pp.7-8), since which time several specimens have been found in the neighbourhood