17th Century Tokens from the Collection of Quentin Archer

Metropolitan Middlesex, St Katharine’s Stairs [St Katharine’s Dock], Edward Belitha, Halfpenny, 1669, grocer, his dovble token for a 1/2d, 1.40g/12h (N 8421a, this piece; BW. 2594). Weak in parts, otherwise about very fine or better, very rare
£100-150

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

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Provenance: R.J. Carthew Collection; R.A. Nott Collection; Norweb Collection, Spink Auction 212, 28-9 March 2012, lot 643 (part).

Edward Belitha (1640-1717), of St Katharine’s and Kingston, Surrey, haberdasher, probably the brother-in-law of the chart-maker and token issuer Andrew Welch of Upper Shadwell (SCBI Norweb VIII, p.xvii), married Sarah Wildy