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City of London, Love Lane [Lovat Lane], William Long, Halfpenny, 1667, 2.66g/12h (N –, but cf. 7306, this piece cited; D –). Obverse good fine, reverse fine, of the highest rarity; perhaps the only known specimen £240-300

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

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Provenance: A Collection of Tokens relating to the Passage of Mail, Baldwin Auction 38, 4 October 2004, lot 751.

The issuer’s earlier token, dated [16]57, is well known and from the footnote in Williamson’s Boyne one might infer that the King’s Head, Love Lane, was solely a post house for letters (p.667)