British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes

METROPOLITAN MIDDLESEX, Bedford Street, Thomas Batchler, Farthing, 1.17g/6h (N –; BW. 156); Channel Row, Thomas Morice, Halfpenny, 1666, 1.80g/10h (N 8657a, this piece; BW. 457) [2]. First good fine and rare, second fine £30-£40

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

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N 8657 H.W. Taffs Collection, Glendining Auction, 21-3 November 1956, lot 867 (part), R.A. Nott Collection, Norweb Collection, Spink Auction 212, 28-9 March 2012, lot 667 (part); BW. 156 bt A. Murphy December 2017

The unique device on the second token shows Westminster Hall surmounted by the heads of Oliver Cromwell and Henry Ireton (cf. Archer, TCSB 12, 4 (September 2017), p.124