18th Century, Stowe, Skidmore’s Farthing, 1796, similar, edge grained, 3.86g/1h (DH 29a). Brilliant and practically as struck, most attractive even brown patina, extremely rare (£600-800)

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

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Provenance:
W Waite Sanderson Collection, Glendining Auction, 16-17 November 1944, lot 13;
bt Spink November 1971. See Colour Plate III

A copy of Robert Taylor’s article, ‘Stowe and the Stowe Farthing,’ is sold with the lot