17th Century Tokens from the Collection of Quentin Archer

METROPOLITAN MIDDLESEX, Clarendon House [Piccadilly], Rob Shipton, Halfpenny, 1.44g/6h (N –; D 656A, recorded from this specimen). Weak in parts and a trifle buckled, otherwise about very fine, extremely rare £100-£150

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

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Collection

F. Sedgwick Collection, Spink Auction 51, 16 April 1986, lot 12; Dora Harris Collection, DNW Auction 56, 11 December 2002, lot 540.

Clarendon House, built in the mid-17th century at a cost of over £40,000, was situated on the north side of Piccadilly, adjacent to Old Bond street and close to the former offices of Dix Noonan Webb Ltd. Samuel Pepys described it as “the finest pile I ever did see in my life.” It was demolished in 1683