LOT 3405
England. North Yorkshire, York, John Orton AE Half Penny Token. Dated 1666.
✿ IOHN • ORTON • GIRDLER, Girdlers' Arms / ✿ IN ✱ YORKE ✱ 1666, HIS HALFE PENNY ✱✿✱ in four lines. Dickenson 424. Fair.(1.26gr, 20mm, 9h.).
ProvenanceFound Sutton on the Forest, Yorkshire, UK, in March 2000.
From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s.
Accompanied by an illustrated record slip by Jim Halliday dated 4 April 2000.
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LOT 3405
England. North Yorkshire, York, John Orton AE Half Penny Token.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
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England. Suffolk, Bury St Edmunds 'Boy Bishop' PB Token. Time of Plantagenet to Tudor, circa 15th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Cast at Bury St. Edmund's. St. Nicholas ('Boy Bishop') series. Illegible inscription, bishop's mitre / Illegible inscription, long cross pattée, triple pellets in quarters. Cf. Mitchiner & Skinner II group i, 8. 1.62gr, 14mm.
Near Very Fine.
Found Suffolk, UK.
This token is a remnant of an old tradition held in England during the Middle Ages. From St. Nicholas' day on December 6 to Childermass on December 28, a choir boy from certain churches and abbeys was selected to be a 'boy Bishop' for the period. During this time the child wore bishop's robes, preached sermons and headed a procession. These tokens are assumed to be part of this ceremony and may have been used by the boy to exchange for sweetmeats or alms. -
England. West Yorkshire, Leeds AE Half Penny Token. Dated 1668.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
I • PASS • TO • & • FRO • FOR, A HALF PENY / IN • LEEDS • 1668, sugar loaf. Dickenson 175. 1.22gr, 19mm.
Fine.
Found Huby, Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s. Accompanied by a record slip by Craig Barclay. -
England. North Yorkshire, York, Robert Benson AE Half Penny Token. Dated 1667.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
★ ROBERT • BENSON :, HIS HALF PENY in three lines / ★ IN • YORKE • 1667, R•I•B around Mercer's Arms. Dickenson 383. 1.18gr, 18mm, 6h.
Good Fine.
Found Huby, Yorkshire, UK, 19 January 2002. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s. Accompanied by an illustrated record card by Jim Halliday dated 19 January 2002.
