British Tokens

Somerset, Axbridge, William Hopkins, Farthing, 1656, 0.68g/12h (N 3943; BW. 2); Bath, City Farthing, 1670, 1.82g/9h (N 3948; BW. 6), John Bush, Farthing, 1656, 1.34g/6h (N 3957; BW. 12), Henry Chapman, Farthing, 0.93g/12h (N 3959; BW. 14), Walter Chapman, Farthings (2), 1.14g/6h, 1.13g/6h (both N 3961; BW. 15), John Foorde, Farthing, 1666, 1.41g/6h (N –; BW. 20), Robert Penny, Farthing, 1.09g/6h (N 3966; BW. 28); Bridgwater, Borough Farthings, 1666 (4), 3.24g/3h (N 3975; BW. 49), 2.79g/12h (N 3977; BW. 49), 1.93g/12h (N 3978; BW. 48), 1.37g/6h (N 3980; BW. 48), William Crapp, Halfpenny, 1670, 1.71g/3h (N 3982; BW. 55), John Linton, Farthing, 1656, 0.60g/3h (N 3986; BW. 63), John Rogers, Halfpenny, 1669, 3.76g/12h (N 3994; BW. 70), William Sealy, Farthing, 1654, 1.08g/3h (N 3993; BW. 73); Bruton, Borough Farthing, 1669, 2.05g/12h (N 3995; BW. 75); Chard, Humphry Able, Halfpenny, 2.20g/9h (N 4000; BW. 84), J[ohn] H[arvey], Farthing, 1671, 3.19g/12h (N 4004; BW. 83), P[eter] J[ohnson], Farthing, receive the crown in every town, 0.43g/10h (N 4005, this piece; BW. 89) [20]. N 3982 very fine, N 3959, one 3961 and 3993 fine, others generally about fine, one or two better, N 4005 and BW. 20 both extremely rare and neither represented in the Young collection £250-350

Provenance: BW. 20, N 3943, 3961 at 1.14g, 3986 and 4004 bt Loughborough Coin & Search Society; N 3959 J.L. Wetton Collection, R.A. Shuttlewood Collection, Spink Auction 151, 15 March 2001, lot 675 (part), bt N.A. Clark; N 3975 bt W. Allen 1962; N 3978 bt M.T. Ray; *N 3982 bt Spink December 1970; N 3994 bt R. Gladdle; N 4000 bt C.T. Smith March 1963; N 4005 Norweb Collection, Spink Auction 104, 6 July 1994, lot 457 (part) [from Baldwin], bt N.A. Clark