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17th Century, Hughenden, Francis Barnaby, Farthing, three tuns, 0.98g/6h (Berry & Morley 100; SCBI Norweb 314, this piece; BW. 68); Francis Barnaby, Halfpenny, three tuns, 2.29g/9h (Berry & Morley 101; SCBI Norweb 315, this piece; BW. 70) [2]. First good fine and patinated, second fine and very rare; the only two issues for this locality (£90-120)

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

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Provenance:
B & M 100 Mrs Emery May Norweb Collection [from Baldwin, 1966];
SNC September 1987 (5377);
Mrs Dora Harris Collection, DNW Auction 28, 21 January 1997, lot 540 (part).

*B & M 101 R A Nott Collection [bt by Spink];
Mrs Emery May Norweb Collection;
SNC February 1988 (438);
J Maitland Collection, BDW Auction 8, 16 November 1994, lot 734 (part).

Francis Barnaby (†1683), grocer, also churchwarden; married Alice Ledringham, June 1617. A deed in his wife’s name, dated 1648, is in the County Museum, Aylesbury