17th Century, Kent, Honychild Manor, Sir Charles Sedley, Halfpence, 1672 (2, same dies), 1.92g/3h, 1.90g/3h (N 2612; BW. 354) [2]. About very fine (£60-80)

Provenance:
1.92g SCMB June 1981 (M 117), P.D. Greenall Collection, Baldwin Auction 16, 30 October 1997, lot 66 (part), bt M. Trenerry December 1997
1.90g bt Spink September 1994.

Sir Charles Sedley, 4th Bt (1639-1701), Restoration poet, dramatist, wit and courtier; son of Sir John Sedley of Aylesford; educated at Wadham College, Oxford; MP for New Romney under Charles II and James II. His only daughter, Catherine (1657-1717), was the mistress of James II who created her Countess of Dorchester in 1686