Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, North Yorkshire, Scarborough, Lady Edith’s Drive, uniface brass Shilling, Eightpence and Penny, all 40mm (Oddie, TCSB 5, pp.90-2; W 1167, 1169, 1170) [3]. Very fine and rare £90-£120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Yorkshire Tokens from the Collection of Geoff Percival.

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Penny bt S.H. Monks.

Lady Edith’s Drive, named after Lady Edith Frances Wilhelmina, née Somerset (1838-1915), wife of William Denison, 1st Earl of Londesborough (1834-1900), the major landowner in Scarborough and owner of Raincliff Woods, through which the Drive ran. Opened as a toll road in August 1864, it remained in the ownership of the Denison family until December 1926