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Auction: 8012 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 309

Fleet Street, John Hancox, GROCER, AT THE GOLDEN, angel, 1/2d, P. P. AT THE HORNE TAVERN – bugle-horn, Will. Pagget AT THE MITER – mitre, Lewis Willson AT YE, sun, TAVERNE, 1/2d., Jo. Harward AT 3 NVNS – three nuns, Tho. Cordin AT THE WHITE HART, 1/2d. – Grocers´ arms; Fleet [?Prison] Yard, Thomas Greene AT THE BARLY BROTH, 1/2d. 1664 (N.6963, 6965, 6968-9, 6972-4; BW.1079, 1091, 1092, 1104, 1080, 1073, 1105), nearly fine to nearly very fine, BW.1104, 1080 and 1073 rare, BW.1091 and 1092 very rare, BW.1105 extremely rare and the only known type for its location (7) Estimate £ 140-170 P. P. = Philemon Powell, vintner; William Paget at the Mitre 1658-60, named in Pepys´s Diary; Lewis Wilson, vintner; Thomas Cordin, apprentice grocer 1653, seller of an ´anipestilential´ powder 1665

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