17TH CENTURY TOKENS ASSOCIATED WITH SAMUEL PEPYS Southwark/Bermondsey
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Covent Garden, William Clifton, Farthing, 0.95g/6h (N 8681; Berry p.54; BW. 737), Halfpenny, 1.48g/12h (N 8682; Berry p.54; BW. 736), William Long, Farthing, 0.89g/6h (N 8683; Berry p.56; BW. 740), Old Street, R.K. D. THE BELL BREW HOVS, Farthing, 1652, 1.08g/6h (N 7954; Berry p.99; BW. 2159); Russell Street, Mary Long, Halfpenny, 1.21g/6h (N 8874; Berry p.56; BW. 2434) [5]. First about fine, last two good fine, others fair £90-120
Provenance: First bt Coins & Antiquities 1966; second bt N.A. Clark 1979; fourth bt M.J. Dickinson 1989; others bt N.A. Clark 1980.
Last only illustrated. William Clifton, vintner, The Fleece, fl. 1651 -76; William Long (†1661), vintner, The Rose, by 1641, succeeded by his widow Mary (†1674)
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Bridge Foot, Abraham Browne, Halfpenny, 1.69g/12h (N 4891; Berry p.35; BW. 197); Cornelius Cooke, Farthing, 0.91g/6h (N 4893; Berry p.35; BW. 198) [2]. First good fine but pierced, second about fine
£40-50 Provenance: *First bt Format 1965; second bt N.A. Clark 1979.
Abraham Browne (†1672), vintner, The Bear, previously vintner, The White Horse, Lombard Street, first wife Penelope (†1652), second wife Frances, a ‘very pretty woman’ according to Pepys, committed suicide in February 1667 by jumping from a window of The Bear into the river Thames; Cornelius Cooke, vintner, The Bear, previously a colonel in Cromwell’s army
Rural Middlesex
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Bow, John Hanscombe, Halfpenny, 1666, 1.66g/9h (N 9082; Berry p.35; BW. 10); Hackney, John Peppiatt, Farthing, 1.08g/6h (N 9141 rev., different obv.; Berry p.77, different dies; BW. 61); Islington, Christopher Busbee, Halfpenny, 1668, 1.82g/12h (N 9208; Berry p.83; BW. 116) [3]. Fair to fine
£60-80
Provenance: First bt N.A. Clark 1986; *second bt N.A. Clark 1979; last bt Seaby 1970.
John Hanscombe, vintner, The King’s Head; John Peppiatt (†1669), vintner, The Mermaid; Christopher Busby, vintner, The White Lion
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Holloway, John Backster, Halfpenny, 1667, 2.11g/12h (N 9180; Berry p.82; BW. 99). Fair, rare
£60-80
Provenance: With Baldwin; bt N.A. Clark 1980. John Backster, vintner, The Mother Redcap
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