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Auction: 8012 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 397

Shoe Lane, [?William Johnson], BENIOHNSONS HEAD, [1d.] 1672 – bust of Ben Jonson, Mansfield´s Coffee-house, IN SHOE LANE BY PROVIDENCE [1d. or large 1/2d.] – hand holding coffee-pot/pricket candle between two tobacco-pipes in saltire and two cups (N.7671b, 7675b; BW.2808, 2798), BW.2808 good fine, rare, BW.2798 fine to good fine, very rare; two unique devices (2) Estimate £ 150-180 Ben Jonson, poet laureate 1616-37

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