17th Century, Steeple Claydon, William Norman, Halfpenny, 1668, 1.45g/6h (Berry & Morley 158; BW. 117). Good fine, extremely rare, the only issue for this locality; only two other specimens in private hands known to the cataloguer (£100-150)

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

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Provenance:
bt R Gladdle December 1983, ‘from a North American source.’

William Norman (†1700), grocer; his wife’s name was Jane. A signatory of the Orthodox Confession of 1679, Norman had been excommunicated in 1662 for non-attendance at his parish church, and was similarly indicted in 1682 and 1687

Two other specimens are in private hands, not one