THE GEORGE BERRY COLLECTION OF 17th CENTURY BUCKINGHAMSHIRE TOKENS
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Aylesbury, Joseph Freer, Farthing, 1652, 0.85g/6h (BM 18; P-M 908; N 285; BW. 14); John Hill, Halfpenny, 1665, 2.97g/3h (BM 19; P-M 908; N 286; BW. 15); Thomas Hill, Farthing, 1.02g/6h (BM 20; P-M 908; N –; BW. 16) [3]. BM 20 good fine but pierced, others fair to fine £100-150
Provenance: BM 18 and 19 bt Baldwin 1965.
BM 20 only illustrated. Joseph Freer (b. January 1625/6), grocer, Baptist, wife’s name Mary (†April 1660); John Hill (†November 1683), chandler, wife’s name Mary (†February 1680/1); Thomas Hill (†May 1676), mercer and draper, Baptist, was among 12 worshippers seized at their Aylesbury church in September 1663 and condemned to death for refusing to conform, but who, after a public outcry, were later reprieved by a personal pardon granted by Charles II, they being the last Protestants in England to be given the death sentence for their faith
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Beaconsfield, T[homas] C[ocke], Farthing, 0.64g/3h (BM 26; P-M 912; N –; BW. 19); Thomas Cocke, Farthing, 1.01g/3h (BM 27; P-M 912; N –; BW. 22); John Foscet, Halfpenny, 1669, 1.34g/6h (BM 28 obv., different rev.; P-M 913; N 290 obv., different rev.; BW. 20) [3]. Last about very fine, others fine but BM 27 with surface encrustation £150-200
Provenance: BM 26 Manchester Museum, by exchange, 1975; BM 27 found carefully placed beneath a roof beam in a cottage at Aylesbury end, Beaconsfield, 1984 (a row of cottages built in the 1650s, perhaps by the issuer), bt Mrs Barnes; *BM 28 variant bt N. A. Clark 2012.
Thomas Cocke (†1706), carpenter, churchwarden 1681-2, wife’s name Jane (†1717); Thomas Cocke (†1682), carpenter, cousin of the former, wife’s name Katherine (†1690)
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Aylesbury, Thomas Stratford, Halfpenny, 1667, 1.85g/12h (BM 22; P-M 909, this piece; N –; BW. 17); Alexander Trott, Halfpenny, 1669, 1.42g/6h (BM 23; P-M 910; N 287; BW. 13) [2]. First fine, second fair, both very rare
£150-200
Provenance: *BM 22 P.J. Preston-Morley Collection, DNW Auction 52, 28-9 November 2001, lot 909 [from Seaby August 1970].
Thomas Stratford (†May 1699), wife’s name Martha; Alexander Trott, grocer
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Beaconsfield, J[oseph] G[rimsdale], Farthing, 1658, 0.56g/6h (BM 29; P-M –; N –; BW. 23); Henry Tripp, Halfpenny, 1668, 1.18g/12h (BM 30; P-M –; N 291; BW. 21) [2]. BM 29 fair to fine, BM 30 about very fine, both very rare
£150-200 Provenance: BM 29 found at West Wycombe 1992.
BM 30 only illustrated. Joseph Grimsdale (1623-66), innholder, The Bull, London end, wife’s name Mary (†1692); Henry Tripp, chandler
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Aylesbury, Francis Wethered, Farthing, 1660, 0.90g/12h (BM 25; P-M 911; N –; BW. 18). Surfaces partially porous, about fine, extremely rare; only 3 specimens known to the cataloguer
£150-200
Provenance: SNC February 1908 (49851); C.W. Pearson Collection, CNG eAuction 255, 4 May 2011 (467).
Francis Weatherhead, draper (b. 1625), wife’s name Ann (†February 1673)
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Beaconsfield, William Willis, Halfpenny, 1668, 2.09g/3h (BM 31; P-M 914; N –; BW. 24). A hint of surface verdigris, otherwise good very fine and rare; the finest specimen known to the cataloguer
£150-200 Provenance: SCMB March 1966.
William Willis, innholder, The Bull, succeeded Joseph Grimsdale, 1666, wife’s name Frances
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