British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

17th Century Tokens, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, Blyth, Thomas Bucke, Halfpenny, 1666, 2.73g/9h (PMP 3, and pl. 3, this piece; N –; BW. 3). Struck slightly off-centre and with reverse die flaw in advanced stage, otherwise about very fine, extremely rare; almost certainly the best known and the only specimen known to PMP in 1981 £150-200

Provenance: J. Tanenbaum Collection, Neales Auction (Nottingham), 28 February 1991, lot 2582 [from Seaby 1973]; G. Kay Collection; A.P. Knighton Collection, DNW Auction 137, 21-3 September 2016, lot 152 [from N.A. Clark February 1999]