British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Parks and Gardens, London, Lambeth, Vauxhall Gardens, uniface copper, unsigned [by R. Yeo after W. Hogarth], Mercury standing, wearing petasus, bull at left and sleeping man at right, scrolled border, back dated (1745), 41 x 40mm, 19.55g (cf. D & W 86/295; MG –). A later striking from the die in rusted state, very fine and extremely rare; with integral loop for suspension £200-300

Provenance: From the stock-in-trade of W.S. Lincoln, Glendining Auction, 6-7 March 1930, lot 44 (part)