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LOT 1679
Medieval 'Thames' Bifacial Pewter Wine Tavern Token
CIRCA 14TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.
3/4 in. (1.13 grams, 18 mm).
Obverse with facing bishop wearing mitre and holding a crook, reverse with hatched hexafoil. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa 1984.
Property of an Essex collector.
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