The George Berry Collection of 17th Century Buckinghamshire Tokens

Princes Risborough, Thomas Headeach, square Halfpenny, 1669, 1.19g/3h (BM 153; P-M 982; N –; BW. 115). Part flat, fair, extremely rare; only 4 specimens known to the cataloguer £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 Princes Risborough 1990.

Thomas Headach (b. 1636), grocer, lived firstly at Princes Risborough, but by 1689 had moved to Monks Risborough; in 1698 he is recorded as living at Westlington, but soon afterwards returned to Princes Risborough. A signatory of the Orthodox Confession of 1679, he was elected Baptist Elder for the villages of Cuddington and Ford in 1689 and was still alive in 1716