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City of London, Threadneedle Street, Tho: Blagrave, Halfpenny, 2.53g/12h (N 7749; BW. 3135; Berry, Pepys pp.110-11). Even wear, fine to very fine, light patina, 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: W.J. Faulkner Collection duplicates, Sotheby Auction, 24 January 1979, lot 151 (part); Mrs Dora Harris Collection, DNW Auction 56, 11 December 2002, lot 529.

Thomas Blagrave (†1693), vintner, apprenticed 1642, took a 21-year lease on The Crown in 1663 which he agreed to surrender in 1667 after the inn was rebuilt following the Great Fire. The site is now occupied by the Bank of England