Warwickshire, Coleshill, Thomas Crooke, Halfpenny, 1666, 1.35g/12h (N –; D –; BW. –). Good fine, of the highest rarity; perhaps the only known specimen £100-150

Provenance: Bt Spink 1971 (as BW. 51, a farthing of the same issuer dated 1670).

The full reading is: mm. pierced cinquefoil both sides, thomas crooke in colshill, his half peny, rev. tallow chandler 1666, t m c