British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes

LINCOLNSHIRE, Boston, Overseers, Halfpenny, 2.35g/9h (OB 16b; N 2909; D 15A); Robert Atkyn, Farthing, 0.52g/6h (OB 17; N –; BW. 16); John Browne, Farthing, 1666, 0.92g/6h (OB 19; N 2912; BW. 17); Christopher Coxal, Farthings (3), undated (2), 1.54g/6h (OB 22a; N 2914 rev., different [earlier] obv.; BW. 19), 0.51g/6h (OB 22b; N 2914; BW. 19), 1666, 0.57g/3h (OB 23; N –; BW. 20); Thomas Etherington, Farthing, 1664, 0.86g/9h (OB 25; N –; BW. 22); Marriam Francis, Halfpenny, 1668, 1.13g/6h (OB 26; N –; BW. 23); Barron Haire, Farthings, 1656 (2), 0.90g/6h (OB 27a; N –; BW. 25), 0.97g/12h (OB 27b; N –; BW. 24); Thomas Massam, Farthing, 1659, 1.04g/6h (OB 32; N –; BW. 28); Samuel Skelton, Farthing, 0.68g/6h (OB 38; N 2916; BW. 36); George Walker, Farthing, 0.55g/6h (OB 39b; N –; BW. 38) [13]. OB 26 and 27a very fine with dark patina, both superior to the O’Bee illustrations, OB 19 and 22a about very fine, others in varied state £180-£220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, 17th Century Tokens from the Collection of the late Stephen Wrenn.

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OB 19 bt Spink; OB 25 Property of a Lady, Spink Auction 51, 16 April 1986, lot 133 (part); *OB 26 D.L. Smith Collection [from Seaby April 1971]; OB 27a bt J. Holman