17th Century Tokens, Lincolnshire, Stamford, Borough Farthing, 1657 [issue of Francis Dalby and Humphrey Reynolds], 1.24g/6h (PPM 1; Smith 260; N 2987; BW. 242); Borough Halfpence (3, from two obv. dies), 2.02g/12h (PPM 2; Smith 252; N 2988; BW. 234), 2.99g/12h, 1.75g/12h (PPM 3; Smith 253; N 2989; BW. 235); Robert Algar, Farthing, [16]57, 0.82g/6h (PPM 4; Smith 254; N 2990; BW. 236); Francis Barnwell, Halfpenny, 1668, 2.47g/12h (PPM 6; Smith 256; N –; BW. 238) [6]. PPM 6 about fine and very rare, others fine to very fine £120-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection.

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Provenance: PPM 1 and *6 N.J. Hutchinson Collection, bt M.J. Dickinson June 1988; others J. Kendall Bourne Collection.

Francis Dalby, alderman 1657-8, clerk of the market; Humphrey Reynolds (†1680), chandler, freeman 1644, chief chamberlain 1657-8, took up the Presbyterian faith, wife’s name Sarah; Robert Algar, chandler, freeman 1635, constable 1637-8 and 1660-1, burgess 1663-6; Francis Barnwell (b. December 1621), barber-surgeon, freeman 1651, constable 1651-2, churchwarden 1660, councilman 1662-77, wife’s name Sarah (†April 1671). The Borough halfpence were ordered in two batches, on 5 December 1667 and 8 October 1668, instigated by the then mayor, Daniel Wigmore, but the profit accruing from their circulation, originally intended to benefit the poor, seems to have been directed instead towards repairing the town’s Guildhall