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The Collection of 17th Century Tokens of South London formed by Quentin Archer

Quentin Archer

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№ 833

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2 February 2022

Hammer Price:
£480

Southwark, Blackman Street, John Wabb, Halfpenny, 2.35g/12h (E 383, this piece illustrated; N 4777; D 194B, recorded from this specimen). Good very fine, extremely rare; only one other specimen listed by Everson £150-£200

Provenance: Found in the R. Thames near Custom House Quay, 1983; Dora Harris Collection, DNW Auction 38, 25 November 1998, lot 300 [from R. Sharman August 1984]; Dora Harris Collection, DNW Auction 56, 11 December 2002, lot 566