Excerpt from A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern, and Coffee-House Tokens: Current in the Seventeenth Century The one or two specimens of the Alfred half-pence, in the Thomas collection, were, previous to the Cuerdale find, sub ject to doubt and suspicion; but that extraordinary discovery, while it served to dispel many doubts which enshrouded the history of the monetary remains of that period, also enriched the numismatic depositories with many a choice specimen of several most desirable varieties. Among those the half-pennies of Alfred were not the least appreciable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.