17th Century, Princes Risborough, Thomas Headeach, square Halfpenny, 1669, fleur-de-lis, 1.03g/3h (Berry & Morley 153; BW. 115). Fine and clear, extremely rare; only three specimens known to the cataloguer, one of which is in an institution (£400-500)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Tokens.

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Provenance:
A metal detector find at Princes Risborough, 1995;
bt R Gladdle September 1995.

Thomas Headach (b.1636), grocer, lived firstly at Princes Risborough, but by 1689 had moved to Monks Risborough; in 1698 he is recorded as living at Westlington, but soon afterwards returned to Princes Risborough. A signatory of the Orthodox Confession of 1679, he was elected Baptist Elder for the villages of Cuddington and Ford in 1689 and was still alive in 1716. Further details of his religious leanings are sold with the lot