17th Century Tokens, London (Metropolitan Middlesex), Shadwell, uncertain issuer [perhaps with the surname Hancock], Farthing, 0.72g/3h (Thompson SNC June 1990, p.158, this piece; N –; D –). Surfaces lightly pitted, otherwise fine, of the highest rarity and the only known specimen £150-200

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

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Provenance: Found on the banks of the R. Thames near Rotherhithe, January 1990; P.D. Greenall Collection, Baldwin Auction 16, 30 October 1997, lot 173 [from M. Moran via Spink].

The punning obverse device of a cockerel atop an outstretched hand is presumed to refer to an issuer with the name Hancock