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Sold between 3 & 5 October 2011

8 parts

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Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection

David Brandon Griffiths

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№ 83

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2 October 2013

Hammer Price:
£100

17th Century Tokens, Lincolnshire, Wainfleet, John Shaw, Halfpenny, 1670, 1.40g/6h (PPM 7; Smith 288; N 3000; BW. 268); Robert Temple, Farthing, 1667, 0.84g/12h (PPM 8; Smith 289; N –; BW. 269) [2]. PPM 7 fine, PPM 8 about fine and very rare, five specimens known to the cataloguer £90-120

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

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Provenance: T.W. Townsend Collection, Spink Auction 28, 28 April 1983, lot 45 (part); bt Spink May 1983.

PPM 7 only illustrated. John Shaw (†April 1692, aged 54), mercer of Burgh-le-Marsh and Wainfleet, churchwarden 1663, wife’s name Rachel (b.1647)