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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: 801

CAMBRIDGESHIRE, Cambridge, James Burleigh, David Hood's Penny, 1799, HOBSON • CAMBRIDGE • CARRIER, Hobson on horseback right, DIED 1630 AGED 86 in exergue in two lines, rev. JAMES BURLEIGH S TOKEN CAMBRIDGE + 1799 +, view of Hobsons conduit, HOBSONS CONDUIT BUILT 1614. in field, VALUE ONE PENNY PAYABLE AT CAMBRIDGE on edge, 12h, 29.68g (D&H 9), evidence of previous handling in the fields, otherwise with a glass-like brilliance to the fields and traces of red, good extremely fine

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



James Burleigh operated wagons between Cambridge and London, putting up at the Bull Inn on Bishopsgate Street. It can therefore be understood why Burleigh chose the well-respected figure of Tobias Hobson to feature on his Penny.

Tobias Hobson (1544-1631) is remembered as Cambridge's most famous townsperson. He succeeded to the business of his father, as a carrier of heavy goods and people between Cambridge and London. He kept a large stable of horses and as a result introduced the expression 'Hobson's choice' into the English language; it was Hobson's strong belief that only the most well rested horse should be put to work.

Only forty-eight pennies were struck in copper and six in silver.


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