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Auction: 8012 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 328

Holborn Conduit neighbourhood, Anthoney Joyce – three stags, R. D. AT THE GOVLDEN STILL – still and receiver, T. B. – hen and chickens (2, one reading THE HENN AND CHICHENS, the other . . . CHICKENS), E. H., QVEENE HEAD TAVERNE – bust of Elizabeth I, Matt. Bayly AT YERED COW, 1/2d. – cow, T. S., THE 3 SVGAR LOVES – three sugarloaves conjoined; Hosier Lane, Andrew Leake, 1/2d. – harrow, I/J. P. AT THE SHVGER LOFE, 1651 – sugarloaf (N.7122c, 7123b, 7124-8, 7131b, 7132; BW.1427, 1393, 1360 var., 1360, 1413, 1366, 1456, 1500, 1502), BW.1413 very fine, the others fair to nearly very fine; BW.1413 rare, BW.1427 and 1502 very rare, BW.1393 and 1456 extremely rare (9) Estimate £ 150-180 Anthony Joyce, tallow-chandler, leatherseller, mentioned several times in Pepys´s Diary, died after attempting to commit suicide in 1668; T. S. = Thomas Strudwick, confectioner, ?grocer

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