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Sold on 30 September 2025

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The Collection of Suffolk Tokens formed by the late Ivor Brecker

Ivor Brecker

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№ 3

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30 September 2025

Hammer Price:
£180

17th Century Tokens, Beccles, Corporation Farthing, 1670, 1.28g/12h (N 4238; BW. 5); Will Crane, Farthings (2), 1.07g/3h, 1.03g/3h (both N 4239; BW. 6); William Cutlove, Farthing, 1664, 1.14g/12h (N 4241; BW. 7); Henrey Farrer, Farthing, 1.17g/9h (N 4243; BW. 9); David Grice, Farthing, 1.23g/6h (N 4244; BW. 10); John King, Farthing, 1657, 0.82g/12h (N 4245; BW. 11); Tobias Murdock, Farthing, 0.88g/12h (N 4246; BW. 12); John Nicholls, Farthing, 1.04g/6h (N 4247; BW. 13); John Warde, Farthing, 1659, 1.21g/6h (N 4248; BW. 14) [10]. N 4243 and 4244 very fine, latter overstruck on an uncertain undertype, others generally about fine and better; all the issuers for the town £120-£150

N 4238 and *4244 bt Seaby September 1974; N 4239 at 1.07g bt Stanley Gibbons October 1979; N 4239 at 1.03g H. Pegg Collection, Spink Auction 19, 3 March 1982, lot 128 (part); N 4241 bt Seaby September 1969; N 4243 bt Spink January 2001; N 4245 bt April 2001; N 4246 Eileen Judson Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 57, 19 March 2003, lot 962 (part) [from Spink c. 1970], bt N.A. Clark May 2003; N 4247 bt Spink April 1976; N 4248 bt J.L. Holman July 2001