The George Berry Collection of 17th Century Buckinghamshire Tokens

Ivinghoe, John Tomes, Farthing, 1664, 0.94g/9h (BM –; P-M 959, this piece; N –; D 79A variety). Obverse with surface verdigris and virtually indistinct, reverse about very fine, of the highest rarity; the only known specimen
£150-200

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

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Provenance: Found at Pitstone Mill, Ivinghoe, October 1982; P.J. Preston-Morley Collection, DNW Auction 52, 28-9 November 2001, lot 959 [from D.B. Griffiths April 1984].

John Tomes, mercer