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17th Century Tokens from the Collection of Quentin Archer

Quentin Archer

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№ 1059

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6 June 2019

Hammer Price:
£150

London (City), Broad Street, Silvester Deane, Halfpenny, 1667, 3.23g/5h (N –; BW. 430). Fine, extremely rare £90-£120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, 17th Century Tokens from the Collection of Quentin Archer.

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Provenance: With Seaby; bt N.A. Clark December 2006.

For Deane’s coffee house in Broad street see Lillywhite,
London Coffee Houses, no. 341. Deane is shown living in St Mary Abchurch precinct in the Lady Day 1662-3 hearth tax returns, but presumably moved promptly after the Great Fire to Broad street which lay just outside the devastated zone. In 1677-8 he was suspected, along with several other coffee house proprietors, of assisting with the circulation of seditious papers