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, Huntingdonshire, St Ives, John Hickman Jr, Halfpenny, 1668, 2.57g/12h (BW. Cornwall 86). Good fine, rare (£80-100)

Provenance:
J.A.D. Mayne Collection, Spink Auction 145, 12-14 July 2000, lot 2685.

John Hickman Jr, salter. Evidence presented by Gary Oddie (TCSB vol.7, no.5, December 2002, pp.169-71), suggests that the tokens of the Hickmans, father and son (BW. Cornwall 85 and 86), should be placed to St Ives, Huntingdonshire, where a John Hickman gave his tenement in Bridge street to his wife Elizabeth in 1661 and was assessed for four hearths in 1674. Additionally, a token of John Hickman Jr has been noted as a recent metal detector find from Godmanchester