17th Century Tokens, Miscellaneous, Huntingdonshire, Brampton, John Deare, Halfpenny, 1669, 2.57g/9h (Oddie, ‘Reclaiming some Huntingdonshire tokens,’ TCSB 2002); BW. Derbyshire 33; BW. Suffolk 27). Good very fine, very rare (£90-120)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of British Tokens formed by Eileen Judson.

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Provenance:
Col. R.J. Carthew Collection, SCMB March 1946;
R. Levine Collection.

John Deare, wife’s name Elizabeth; another specimen was recently found by a metal detectorist in Cambridgeshire. A copy of Gary Oddie’s article relating to John Deare is sold with the lot