British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

Edlesborough, Daniell Finch, Halfpence, 1666 (2), mm. cinquefoil on obv., 1.86g/3h (BM 80; P-M 939 rev., different obv.; N 309 rev., different obv.; BW. 55), mm. sexfoil on obv., 2.06g/12h (BM 81; P-M 939; N 309; BW. 55) [2]. Fine and better, first very rare, second with edge hammered up; the only two issues for the town £100-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The George Berry Collection of 17th Century Buckinghamshire Tokens.

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Provenance: *BM 80 bt Seaby 1966; BM 81 bt P.J. Preston-Morley 1980 [from N.A. Clark November 1975].

Daniel Finch (†1693), grocer, first wife Susan (†February 1666), second wife Sarah. Finch moved to Dunstable, buying a shop and tenement from his brother Samuel in 1667 and issued tokens there in 1668