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17th Century, Winslow, Matthew Bishop, Farthing, three boars’ heads, 0.97g/6h (Berry & Morley 190; SCBI Norweb 345, same dies; BW. 146). Very fine and very rare (£70-90)

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

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Provenance:
Bt Seaby April 1970, ‘part of a small group of coins and tokens acquired from a resident of Winslow in March 1970.’

Matthew Bishop (†1689); married Deborah Shrimpton, March 1649 (she †June 1688)