TOKENS FROM THE LATE DAVID GRIFFITHS COLLECTION (Part IV)
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Sutton-in-the-Marsh [or Sutton St Mary], I.M.S., Farthing, 0.88g/6h (PPM 1; Smith 193; N 2996; BW. 178). Obverse a little off-centre, otherwise good fine, rare
£60-80
Provenance: T.W. Townsend Collection, Spink Auction 28, 28 April 1983, lot 31 (part); M. Bridgewater Collection, BDW Auction 14, 28 June 1995, lot 461 (part)
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Wainfleet, John Racee, Halfpenny, 1667, 0.89g/3h (PPM 6; Smith 287; N –; D 267A). About very fine, extremely rare; the best specimen known to the cataloguer £150-200
Provenance: T.W. Townsend Collection, Spink Auction 28, 28 April 1983, lot 46; bt Spink May 1983.
John Racee, innholder, The Red Lion, wife’s name Elizabeth
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Tattershall, Will[iam] Hunter, Farthing, 1660, 0.97g/12h (PPM 3; Smith 280; N –; BW. 262); John Williamson, Farthing, 1657, initials IMW, 0.89g/12h (PPM 5; Smith 282; N –; BW. 264) [2]. PPM 3 mediocre but very rare, PPM 5 fine and of the highest rarity from the reverse die in original state
£150-200
Provenance: PPM 3 T.W. Townsend Collection, Spink Auction 28, 28 April 1983, lot 44, SCMB March 1985 (M 26); *PPM 5 N.J. Hutchinson Collection, bt M.J. Dickinson June 1988.
William Hunter, churchwarden; John Williamson, baker, Will gives his wife’s name as Frances
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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
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)
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Wainfleet, Richard Coxon, Farthings (3, from two obv. and two rev. dies), mm. small mullet (2), small shield, 1.04g/12h (PPM 2; Smith 285; N 2999; BW. 266), large shield, 0.67g/12h (PPM 3; Smith 284; N 2999 rev., different obv.; BW. 266), mm. rosette on rev., large shield, 0.58g/9h (PPM 4; Smith 284; N –; BW. 266) [3]. About fine, all the varieties for the issuer, all very rare, PPM 4 especially so, only one other seen by the cataloguer
£140-180
Provenance: PPM 2 bt R. Gladdle January 1996; PPM 3 T.W. Townsend Collection, Spink Auction 28, 28 April 1983, lot 45 (part), bt Spink May 1983; *PPM 4 J. Kendall Bourne Collection.
Richard Coxon, grocer, wife’s name Mary Additional illustrations may be found on our web site 84
West Deeping, Thomas Chambers, heart-shaped Halfpenny, 1668, 1.77g/12h (PPM 1; Smith 74; N –; BW. 66). Excavated, obverse about fine, reverse better
£100-150 Provenance: Bt R. Gladdle May 1982
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