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Sold between 3 & 5 October 2011

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Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection

David Brandon Griffiths

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№ 6

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2 October 2013

Hammer Price:
£350

17th Century Tokens, Lincolnshire, Boston, John Brassey, octagonal Halfpenny, 2.25g/9h (PPM 5; Smith –; N –; D 16A; BW. Shropshire 63). Flan clipped down one side, otherwise fine and of the highest rarity; the best of the two known specimens [the other being Townsend lot 5] £300-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection.

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John Brassey (†April 1701), goldsmith, freeman 1666, churchwarden 1683, wife’s name Mary (†September 1709)