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LOT 1690

Medieval 'Thames' Bifacial Pewter Wine Tavern Token

CIRCA 14TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.

5/8 in. (0.64 grams, 16 mm).

Obverse with hatched cross and rings in the spandrels, reverse with crouching ape eating a fruit – as found on contemporary seal-matrices. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa 1984.
Property of an Essex collector.

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LOT 1690

Medieval 'Thames' Bifacial Pewter Wine Tavern Token

Sold for (Inc. bp): £338

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