British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

17th Century Tokens, Honychild Manor, Sir Charles Sedley, Halfpenny, 1672, 2.63g/3h (N 2612; BW. 354). About very fine £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Peter Mann Collection of Kent Tokens.

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Provenance: Bt September 1952.

Sir Charles Sedley, 4th Bt (1639-1701), Restoration poet, dramatist, wit and courtier; son of Sir John Sedley of Aylesford; educated at Wadham College, Oxford; MP for New Romney under Charles II and James II. His only daughter, Catherine (1657-1717), was the mistress of James II, who created her Countess of Dorchester in 1686