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Various rulers. 33gr total.

Condition as seen.

Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s.

Various rulers. 27.30gr total.

Condition as seen.

Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s.

Various rulers. 26.55gr total.

Condition as seen.

Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s.

Various types. 12.54gr total.

Condition as seen.

Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s.

Lot No. 3654
2
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Various rulers. 5.17gr total.

Condition as seen.

Found Suffolk, UK.

Various rulers. 12.14gr total.

Condition as seen.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Various rulers. 12.20gr total.

Condition as seen.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Various rulers. 12.91gr total.

Condition as seen.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Lot No. 3658
3
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Various types. 21.92gr total.

Condition as seen.

Found Suffolk, UK.

Various rulers. 16.90gr total.

Condition as seen.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Lot No. 3660
6
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Various rulers. 12.81gr total.

Condition as seen.

From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.

Love Tokens
Lot No. 3661
2
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Each coin worn flat and bent into a double-curved 's' profile for use as a token of love. The custom of giving a bent coin as a love-token is known from the 17th century in England. The coins were usually smoothed to obliterate the monarch’s head and then bent twice; sometimes they were engraved with initials or symbols such as hearts or knots. If the sweetheart accepted the youth's advances, she kept the token; if not, she disposed of the coin. The tradition is referred to in the children's rhyme 'There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile, he found a crooked sixpence on a crooked stile.' 14.16gr total.

Condition as seen.

Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s.

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