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№ 160

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2 October 2013

Hammer Price:
£600

High Wycombe, Robert Watson, Farthing, 1666, 0.59g/3h (BM 232; P-M –; N –; D 177B). Good fine and of the highest rarity; the best of the two known specimens and the only example in private hands £300-400

Provenance: Bt R. Gladdle.

Robert Watson, coffee-house proprietor, The Saracen’s Head, first wife Mary, second wife Elizabeth