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Theatre and Entertainment, Lancashire, Liverpool, Royal Colosseum, T[homas] Heath, copper (2), theatre, revs. liver bird, 32mm, 14.76g/6h, 25mm, 6.99g/6h (Todd 59.2, 59.3; D & W 8/85, 8/86; MG 620, 624; Noble II, 631); Warwickshire, Birmingham, Welch & Co’s Hippodrome, copper, by T. Pope, pit, rev. horse left, 31mm, 10.18g/12h (D & W –; MG 581; Noble II, 751) [3]. About very fine and better £30-50

Provenance: D.C. Pottinger Collection [first from J. Whitmore May 1974, second from Oxford Coin Fair April 1977, third from M. Eden September 1994).

Royal Colosseum Theatre, 25 Paradise street, a former Unitarian chapel purchased by Joseph Heath in 1850, proprietor his son Thomas Theodore Heath 1864-73