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Metropolitan Middlesex, Charterhouse Lane [Charterhouse Street], John New, Halfpenny, 1669, 2.28g/12h (N –; D –). Very fine and of the highest rarity; believed the only known specimen £240-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, 17th Century Tokens from the Collection of Quentin Archer.

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Provenance: Found in the R. Thames near Custom House Quay, 1985; Mrs Dora Harris Collection, DNW Auction 56, 11 December 2002, lot 538 [from R. Sharman July 1985]