British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

City of London, Birchin Lane, Roger Forth, Halfpenny, 1667, 3.25g/9h (N 6565; BW. 216). Small obverse metal fault at 7 o’clock (similar to that on the Norweb specimen), otherwise about very fine, rare £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, 17th Century Tokens from the Collection of Quentin Archer.

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Provenance: E.J. Luck Collection, Sworders Auction (Stansted Mountfitchet), 22 October 2012, lot 1224 (part); bt S.H. Monks October 2012.

Roger Forth, St Michael, Cornhill, innholder, alive in 1682