Auction Catalogue

11 April 2012

Starting at 12:00 PM

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British Tokens

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 195

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11 April 2012

Hammer Price:
£410

City of London, Exchange Alley, Aurthor Stanley, Halfpenny, 1666, 1.60g/6h (N 6880; Berry p.62; BW. 962); Royal Exchange, Thomas Browning, Farthing, 1.31g/6h (N 7561; Berry p.60; BW. 958), Nicholas Coleborne, Farthing, 0.99g/6h (Berry p.62; BW. 959) [3]. Last good fine and very rare, others fair to fine £60-80

Provenance: *Last found in the R. Thames on South Bank, 1983, bt R. Sharman; others bt N.A. Clark 1979.

Arthur Stanley (†1674), vintner, The New Exchange, believed to have been a personal acquaintance of Samuel Pepys; Thomas Browning, vintner, The King’s Head, fl. 1679; Nicholas Coleborne, vintner, The Sun, 1651-65, later vintner, The Fleece, Cornhill, married Ann Croone, 1651, succeeded by John Wadlow