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№ 932

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29 November 2001

Hammer Price:
£210

17th Century, Chesham, Samuell Ware, Farthing, 1658, 0.82g/9h (Berry & Morley 70; BW. 53A). Edge slightly chipped, otherwise very fine and patinated; only two others known to the cataloguer, both in the County Museum, Aylesbury (£150-200)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Tokens.

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Provenance:
Bt P Deane November 1982.

Samuel Ware (1628-1695), weaver, also baptist; his wife’s name was Sarah (†1674). The reference to a second wife by the name of Greas Downes (
BNJ 1973, p.120), is incorrect, as is the inference that there are two obverse dies for the issue (BNJ 1973, p.105, and pl.iii, 70, 71); a flaw between r and e of ware on the pierced specimen in the County Museum had been thought to have been a misplaced punctuation mark