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№ 127

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26 April 2023

Hammer Price:
£30

Irongate [St Katharine’s], John Rammage, Halfpenny, 1.68g/6h (N 8252; BW. 1547). Part flat, otherwise about fine, very rare £70-£90

A Collection of Seventeenth Century Tokens, the property of a Gentleman, Part I, St James’s Auction 35, 9 February 2016, lot 350 (part); bt Q.D.R. Archer June 2019.

John Ramage (b 1646), a son of the moneyer David Ramage; he was apprenticed to a vintner in 1662, and is believed not to have had any connection with his father’s token manufacturing concern, which was continued by his elder brother David Ramage Jr after their father’s death in late 1661