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Auction: 12009 - The Magnus Collection, Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 757

Counters and jetons (6), William Hall – orb surmounted by cross, within double tressure (5 – revs. paines brings gaines around head with hat, blackamoor´s head (2), three fleurs-de-lis alternating with three crowns around rosette (2)), anon. [c. 1590s], crowned rose dividing E R, god save the qvene, rev. two-headed spread eagle (lead) (N.9347-9, 9350a, 9351, 9376; BW. Uncertain 38, 36, 36 var., 37 (2), cf. Mitchiner 4713-37); Germany, Nuremberg, casting counter, Rechenmeister at table, rev. alphabet, 1553; together with a Bremen billon Grote, 1754, and an English Farthing of Charles I, ´Richmond´ type 2, the Hall pieces nearly fine to very fine, the others fair to fine (9) Estimate £ 100-120 William Hall may have been the stationer who flourished in the early 17th century.

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