A Collection of 17th Century Tokens formed by John Maitland

17th Century, Berkshire, Berkshire, WOKINGHAM, J. Clements, Halfpenny, from the second Ramage obv. die for his Farthing (BW. 180). About very fine and an excellent example of this rarity

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of 17th Century Tokens formed by John Maitland.

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Bt. Dickinson 1987; far superior to the Norweb specimen (Sylloge 268). This unusual token combines a post-Restoration (i.e. 1660-62) Farthing die by Ramage featuring the characteristic open cinquefoil mint-mark, with a Halfpenny reverse die featuring a broken mullet punch as a mint-mark, approximately dated to 1667 by Preston-Morley and Pegg (BNJ 1981)