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Auction: 24123 - British and World Coins and Medals featuring the Pritchard Collection of 18th Century Provincial Tokens and Commemorative Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 887

SUFFOLK, Woodbridge, Penny, 1796, draped bust facing three-quarters forward of Thomas Sekford, rev. shield of arms between palm branches, motto and legend around, PUBLISHED BY R. LODER 1796 . X ., on edge, 6h, 20.19g (D&H 15), faintest of hairline die flaws behind shoulder, speckles of toning to otherwise handsome mint red surfaces, as struck and most pleasing; Ipswich, Penny, draped and caped bust left of Cardinal Wolsey rev. view of an ancient gateway, plain edge, 12h, 16.29g (D&H 10), hairline die flaw to the reverse, lustrous and with traces of red amongst the legends, extremely fine (2)

The Pritchard Collection of 18th Century Provincial Tokens and Commemorative Medals



Thomas Sekford (1515-1587) was a senior lawyer and Member of Parliament. Heralding from Suffolk, he was also a major landowner in the country and is well remembered as a great benefactor to the town of Woodbridge, where he resided at Seckford Hall. This token commemorates his contribution and financial support given to the production of the first County Maps of England undertaken during the 1570s.



Thomas Wolsey (1473-1530) was born in Ipswich in 1473. After attending Ipswich School and later at Magdalen College, Oxford, he rose to the position of Lord Chancellor and thus held the highest political position in the court of Henry VIII. However, after his failure to successfully secure the King's annulment from Catherine of Aragon, Wolsey was stripped of his political titles and banished to York where he was allowed to continue his duties as archbishop until his death in 1530.



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