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17th Century Tokens, Stratford, Abell Bono, octagonal Halfpenny, 1.24g/12h (D 306A; Judson 306a, this piece). Half flat, fine, extremely rare (£200-300)

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

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Provenance:
SCMB August 1972.

Only one other specimen seen by the cataloguer. Abell Bono (†December 1669), silk stocking frame knitter and innholder, the Swan, twice indicted for assault, 1667-8, once on the person of Thomas James (see lot 471)