17th Century, Winslow, Thomas Smallbones, Farthing, hat, 1.32g/12h (Berry & Morley 201; BW. 153). Minor surface verdigris, about very fine, extremely rare; the only specimen in private hands (£100-150)

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

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Provenance:
Gift of H Pegg, March 1980.

Thomas Smallbones, feltmaker, also churchwarden in 1670; married Anne Reeves, October 1648 (she †1699). Smallbones’ name is on the no.3 bell in Winslow parish church, which was cast in 1670