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Lot: 94

England/Great Britain. A Collection of British and foreign coins and tokens excavated in the River Thames from the collection of noted archaeologist Ivor Noël Hume, OBE. 15th Century-1924, generally AE. Includes 17th and 18th century trade tokens, various contemporary counterfeits, English coin weights, Nuremberg Jetons, Elizabethan AR Pennies, tollgate token, wharf tally, various world AEs. Also three James II Plantation tokens, Poor-Fair (one not visibly identifiable) - and a 1962 letter from renowned numismatist Eric P. Newman to Hume thanking him for lending him one of the plantation tokens for study. Each coin identified by where it was found - Billingsgate, Queenhithe, London Bridge, St. Mary Overies Dock, Southwark Bridge, Dowgate, etc. British-born Ivor Noël Hume, OBE (1927-2017) was heralded by his peers as the "Father of historical archaeology." After a brief stint in the British Army in World War II and as an assistant staff manager at a London theatre, Hume joined the staff at the Guildhall Museum in London in 1949. In 1957, he became chief archaeologist and director of the expanded Colonial Williamsburg archaeology program, serving in that role for three decades. Among his many works in the field, was his discovery and excavation of the 17th Century Wolstenholme Towne at Carter's Grove Plantation just east of Williamsburg. Coins grade Poor to Fine. Should be viewed. (118)

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