British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Racing, Yorkshire, Doncaster, New Betting Rooms (Est. 1800), silver, by T. Halliday, frontal elevation of a building, rev. two horses racing, 36mm, 21.04g/12h (D & W 322/3; MG 1179; Noble II, 1071). Fine £80-100

Provenance: D.C. Pottinger Collection [from L. Bennett Nov 1986).

Doncaster Betting Rooms, High street, opposite Doncaster Old Bank [not on the racecourse], became known as the Old Betting Rooms after 1826, when the town’s New Betting Rooms were opened