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Auction: 12009 - The Magnus Collection, Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 596

Finsbury, Smithfield Bars without, Robert Pitt, 1/2d. – three tuns, Richard Richmond, 1/2d. 1667 – black boy holding arrow; Turnmill Street, John Atkinson – man holding club over shoulder, Simon Cooke, 1651 – cock, James Fowke, 1/2d. 1666, John Varney, mealman – pair of spectacles, T. L. at the laber invane – two women washing black man (N.7986, 7987b, 7989, 7991a, 7992a, 7994-5; BW.2894, 2895, 3238, 3245, 3249, 3258, 3251), fair to very fine, BW.2894, 3238 and 3258 extremely rare, BW.3249 very rare, BW.3245 and 3251 rare (7) Estimate £ 150-180 Richard Richmond, b. 1644, apothecary, apprenticed 1658, fl. 1701; ?John Atkinson, carpenter; John Varney, fl. Clerkenwell 1666-72, Master of the Spectacle Makers 1671.

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