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Auction: 8012 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 372

Pudding Lane, John Hands, 1664 – three sugarloaves conjoined, W. P. AT THE BLACKE BVLL – bull, B. A. AT YEMAYDENHEADE, 1657 – bust of Virgin (2, diff. rev. dies), B. A. AT THE MAYDENHEADE, 1/2d. 1668 – bust of Virgin (N.7485a, 7486a, 7487a, 7488, 7489a; BW.2284, 2285, 2283 (2), 2282), BW.2285 very fine, from slightly rusted dies, the others fine to nearly very fine; BW.2285 very rare, BW.2284 extremely rare (5) Estimate £ 120-150 Pudding Lane was where the Great Fire of London started in September 1666. John Hands, haberdasher; B. A. = Brian Appleby, vintner

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