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Auction: 11024 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 194

Seventeenth Century, Dorset, Lyme Regis, Amuell Hart, 1/4d. 1655 – pot of flowers (BW.96); Lancashire, Wigan, Paul Banks, 1/2d. 1669 – windlass, fleur-de-lis and bucket, for h[is] coale pitts (D.138A); Oxfordshire, Kirtlington, Thomas Barrett, 1666 – woolpack (BW. Cumberland 5 (Kirklinton), now reattributed); Eighteenth Century, Essex, Walton on the Naze, I. K., tally for copperas, counterstamped 17 and 36 on each side; Scotland, Lanarkshire, Glasgow, James Angus, 1/4d. 1780 – sugarloaf (DH.22), first good very fine, second fair to fine, centrally pierced, extremely rare, third mediocre, fourth fine, counterstamps better, last good fine but three letters flat each side (5) Estimate £ 150-200 The Banks token was originally attrbuted to Wigan by Nathan Heywood in 1912. No evidence was provided, the rationale for the attribution perhaps being that a known Wigan issuer had the same surname (Gerard Bankes, BW.138) in a town known for its coal mines. The International Genealogical Index records the christening of Paul Bancks at All Saints, Newcastle upon Tyne, on 9 May 1630

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