17th Century, Winslow, John Crawley and Mr Dimock, Halfpenny, 1666, hand holding axe over leaf, 2.10g/12h (Berry & Morley 192; SCBI Norweb 346, same rev. die; BW. 147A); John Crawley and Io. Dimock, Halfpenny, 1666, hand holding axe over leaf, 2.47g/12h, io punched over mr on obv. (Berry & Morley 193; SCBI 346, same dies; BW. 147) [2]. First only mediocre but extremely rare from the obverse die in its unaltered state, only two other specimens known to the cataloguer; second good very fine and attractively patinated (£80-120)

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

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Provenance:
B & M 192 gift of G Berry, February 1973.

*B & M 193 Glendining Auction, 11-12 July 1929, lot 361 (part);
F E Baker Collection, October 1977 [from Spink, September 1929].

John Crawley (b.1644), tobacconist.
John Dymock, tobacconist; married Jane Townsend, January 1671