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17th Century: Gloucestershire, Bristol 18 [= N. 1535]; Cheltenham 40; Cirencester 44 [= N. 1616], 51; Gloucester 81 [= N. 1660]; Stroud 162; Tetbury 163 [= N. 1720], 166 [= N. 1728 rev., obv. unpublished], 169 [= N. 1729]; Wotton-under-Edge 222. [10]. All fine, one or two better, the Stroud rare; sold with old descriptive envelopes (£70-90)

Tetbury 166 ex SCMB Jan. 1957; it is possible that BW. 51, 162 and 169 are also from this source.

The Tetbury token of Obadiah Arrowsmith (BW. 166) is struck from a severely flawed obverse die which correctly gives the issuer’s surname; the reverse shows the beginnings of a flaw by the upper A in the initials not evident on Norweb 1728, indicating a striking subsequent to that piece