British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

Stony Stratford, Thomas Burgis, Farthing, 1657, 0.97g/6h (BM 165; P-M –; N –; BW. 123). A little surface porosity, otherwise good fine, very rare £200-250

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

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Provenance: C.W. Pearson Collection, CNG eAuction 255, 4 May 2011 (476) [from Baldwin October 1900].

Thomas Burgis (†1696), baker and grocer, Quaker, wife’s name Anne (†1667)