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The George Berry Collection of 17th Century Buckinghamshire Tokens

George Berry

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№ 147

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2 October 2013

Hammer Price:
£300

Colnbrook, John Hosey, Farthing, 0.79g/6h (BM 77; P-M 938, this piece; N –; D 54F). Fair to fine, extremely rare; only two other specimens known, one of which is in the British Museum £150-200

Provenance: P.J. Preston-Morley Collection, DNW Auction 52, 28-9 November 2001, lot 938 [from Seaby June 1970]; bt N.A. Clark.

John Hosey (†January 1666), innholder, The Angel, Bath road, wife’s name Joan (†February 1668)