Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Trowbridge, Castle Inn, copper Twopence-Halfpenny, 23mm; J.E. Evans & Sons, bracteate iron Half Quartern, 30mm; J[ohn] B. & H. Gorham, brass, rev. eight of these will buy 1 oz of the finest tea, 24mm; New Inn, J. Thomas, brass Three-Halfpence, 26mm (Greenaway 1188); Rose & Crown Inn, J.H., Norris, copper Twopence, 18mm; Royal Oak Inn, brass Threehalfpence, 33mm, brass Penny, 25mm (Greenaway 1188); Wesleyan Sunday School, iron bracteate, 25mm; Woolpacks Hotel, brass Twopence-Halfpenny by Cottrill, 23mm (Greenaway 1188, this piece) [9]. Second and eighth excavated, others mostly fine £100-£150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Wiltshire Coins, Tokens and Paranumismatica formed by the late David Ward.

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Provenance: First bt L. Whitehouse October 2011; third bt B.M. Greenaway May 1985; fourth bt February 2008; fifth bt N.A. Clark June 2008; sixth bt June 2013; last B.M. Greenaway Collection, DNW Auction T4, 13 December 2006, lot 1188 (part), bt N.A. Clark August 2007.

Evans, John Everett & Sons, grocers, 48 Fore street; John B. Gorham, grocer and tea dealer, b. Maidstone, in 1851 census aged 31; J. Thomas, innholder, New Inn, 22 Silver street, 1875-80; J.H. Norris, innholder, Rose & Crown, 36 Stallard street