17th Century Trade Tokens
Edlesborough, Daniel Finch, Halfpence, 1666.
Daniel Finch, grocer, first wife Susan, second wife Sarah. He moved to Dunstable, buying a shop and tenement from his brother Samuel in 1667 and issued tokens there in 1668
Tokens were struck by many traders between 1648 and 1672, and semi-officially tolerated, in a period when there was insufficient officially available small change.
From ‘Buckinghamshire Trade Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century’ by GC Williamson, reprinted by Seaby.
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(See also pages 196 and 197 which refer to tokens probably issued in Northall.
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