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Auction: 8012 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 284

Cheapside, George Peirce, 1665 – bull´s head, Mary Woodfall – nag´s head, Ezekiell Wallis AT THE BLEW BOAR – boar, T. B., THE BVLL HEAD TAVERNE, 1650 – bull´s head, Charles Kiftell AT THE COFFEE HOVSE, [1d.] 1669 – hand pouring coffee from pot to bowl, T. C., THE FEATERS TAVERN, 1650 – plume of feathers (N.6756-7, 6759, 6760a, 6761-2; BW.594, 602, 601, 573, 586, 575), BW.575 fair, BW.594 and 601 nearly very fine, the others fine, BW.602 and 575 extremely rare (6) Estimate £ 110-130 ?George Peirce, vintner; Ezekiel Wallis, mercer, silkman; T. B. = Thomas Benson, vintner, named in Pepys´s Diary; T. C. = Col. Thomas Coates, vintner

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