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Auction: 8012 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 262

Bishopsgate neighbourhood, Rich. Levet AT THE CRISPIN AND CRISPIANVS, 1653, F. B., GROCER, THE SVGAR LOFE – sugarloaf; Bishopsgate Street, Will. Bennet, 1657 – bust of Henry VIII, Tho. Blackborne – sugarloaf, Hen. Horne, CHES MONGER, John Wilson – queen´s head, Phillip Winfield – Bakers´ arms, [John Wilson], 1/2d. [16]66 – queen´s head/monogram, I/J. M. AT THE ACORNE – acorn, H. A. AT THE BLACK HEART – hart lodged, R. R. AT THE MITER TAVERN – mitre, E. D., THE SHIP TAVERN – ship (N.6567-70, 6573, 6576-9, 6581, 6583, 6585; BW.242, 220, 223, 224, 237, 262, 263, 264, 243, 218, 249, 228), BW.228 very fine, the others fair to nearly very fine; BW.263 and 264 rare, BW.223, 262 and 249 very rare (12) Estimate £ 180-220 Richard Levett, cordwainer; ?Thomas Blackborn, merchant taylor; John Wilson, vintner, ´Queen´s Head´; Philip Wingfield, baker; R. R. = Richard Robinson, vintner; E. D. = Edward Drayton, vintner. John Wilson has been suggested recently as the issuer of N.6578 (BW.264) by Robert Thompson (Num. Circ., April 2008, pp.56-7)

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