Gloucestershire, Barton Regis, Tho[mas] Watkins, Halfpenny, 1668, 2.50g/12h (N 1439; BW. 3); Bristol, City Farthings (12), 1577+, 1.57g/9h (N 1444ff; BW. 22), 1652 (5), 3.64g/6h (N 1454; BW. 12), 3.09g/6h (N 1459; BW. 12), 3.25g/6h (N 1462; BW. 12), 2.49g/6h (N 1470; BW. 12), 3.36g/6h (N 1494; BW. 12), 1660, 2.84g/6h (N 1508; BW. 17), 1662 (4), 2.56g/6h (N 1536; BW. 18), 2.88g/6h (N 1564; BW. 18), 2.57g/6h (N 1580; BW. 18), and a struck counterfeit, 1.86g/7h (N 1584), 1670, 1.95g/12h (N 1586; BW. 20); Cheltenham, Edward Johnson, Farthing, 1.20g/6h (N 1603; BW. 39), John Mason, Halfpenny, 1667, 1.36g/6h (N 1604b, this piece; BW. 40), Thomas Mason, Halfpenny, 1.37g/12h (N 1605b, this piece; BW. 41); Chipping Campden, George Freeman, Farthing, 0.84g/6h (N 1608; BW. 26), Valentin Smith, Farthing, 1651, 1.01g/6h (N 1611; BW. 30); Cirencester, Borough Farthing, 1668, 2.62g/12h (N 1617; BW. 44), Anthony Chance, Farthing, 1.17g/6h (N 1620; BW. 46), Edmund Feriby, Farthing, 1.20g/6h (N 1628; BW. 52), Elizabeth Kemble, Farthing, 1657, 1.36g/9h (N 1632; BW. 56), Rebekuh Osborne, Farthing, 0.70g/6h (N 1636; BW. 60), Caleb Selfe, Farthing, 1666, 0.60g/3h (N 1640; BW. 65); Dursley, William Partridge, Farthing, 1.12g/6h (N 1644, this piece; BW. 71), Obediah Webb, Farthings (3), 1.25g/6h, 0.91g/6h, 0.78g/6h (all N 1648; BW. 74) [28]. Bristol City issues mostly fine, the struck counterfeit rare, N 1604, 1605 and one 1648 fine or better, others in varied state £200-300

Provenance: N 1604b R.A. Nott Collection, Norweb Collection, bt Spink September 1990; *N 1605b and 1644 R.A. Nott Collection, Norweb Collection, SNC October 1989 (5463, 5467); N 1608, 1611 and 1620 bt Loughborough Coin & Search Society; N 1628 bt C.T. Smith January 1963; N 1632 bt Seaby 1964; N 1636 bt B.M. Greenaway; N 1640 bt Spink; N 1648 at 0.91g bt R. Gladdle