Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection

17th Century Tokens, London (Metropolitan Middlesex), Upper Shadwell, Nicholas Thory, Farthing, 0.74g/12h (N 8492; BW. Middlesex 201), Halfpenny, 1666, 1.66g/9h (N 8493, this piece listed; D 201A); Elias Ungle, Farthing, 0.89g/6h (N 8494; BW. 202); E.E.W. y speaker frigat, Farthing, 0.80g/6h (N 8499; BW. 203); Robert Welch, Halfpenny, 1668, 2.12g/12h (N 8495; D 205A) [5]. About fine and better, particularly N 8493, this with ‘river’ patina, mostly very rare £200-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection.

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Provenance: N 8492 SNC March 1991 (1319), P.D. Greenall Collection, Baldwin Auction 16, 30 October 1997, lot 172 (part); *N 8493 Property of a Lady, Spink Auction 51, 16 April 1986, lot 141; N 8499 P.D. Greenall Collection, Baldwin Auction 16, 30 October 1997, lot 172 (part) [from Baldwin August 1987]