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Auction 137 21-23 Sept 2016
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LONDON 17th CENTURY TOKENS FROM THE COLLECTION OF QUENTIN ARCHER (PART 1)
BRITISH TOKENS, Metropolitan Middlesex, Clerkenwell Green, John Roberts, mule Halfpenny, ye drvm, 1.22g/6h (N 7893, this piece; cf. BW. 665 and D 1977A). Patches of verdigris on either side, otherwise very fine and an interesting curio; believed the only known specimen from the dies this way round £100-200
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Provenance: Norweb Collection, Spink Auction 212, 28-9 March 2012, lot 586.
The reverse die was intended for the halfpenny of one of Roberts' near neighbours, Edward Usher of Mutton Lane (D 1977A; lot 116 in this catalogue). A converse mule, linking the obverse of Usher's token with the reverse of Roberts', is in the Museum of London (SCBI Norweb VIII)
BRITISH TOKENS, Metropolitan Middlesex, Clerkenwell Green, John Roberts, mule Halfpenny, ye drvm, 1.22g/6h (N 7893, this piece; cf. BW. 665 and D 1977A). Patches of verdigris on either side, otherwise very fine and an interesting curio; believed the only known specimen from the dies this way round £100-200
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Provenance: Norweb Collection, Spink Auction 212, 28-9 March 2012, lot 586.
The reverse die was intended for the halfpenny of one of Roberts' near neighbours, Edward Usher of Mutton Lane (D 1977A; lot 116 in this catalogue). A converse mule, linking the obverse of Usher's token with the reverse of Roberts', is in the Museum of London (SCBI Norweb VIII)