Obv: Ship issuing right from castle within inner circle.
Rev: Large C B within inner circle. (Civitas Bristol)
Large full lozenge-shaped flan 22mm x 20mm. Weight: 3.7 grams.
M. Dickinson 21.

Bristol had a licence from Queen Elizabeth to make farthing tokens, which were struck in copper, with a ship on one side, and C. B. on the other, signifying Civitas Bristol. These were current at Bristol and ten miles about."--Malyne's Lex Mercatoria, p. 194.

Sold Nov 2011