Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

Tickets and Checks (Post-1830), Douglas, Theatre Royal Hotel, Richard Brown, brass Twopence, c. 1860, legend around value, rev. plain, edge grained, 26mm, 6.24g (Quarmby 99; Mackay 140; cf. R.J. Ford I, 239; cf. Cain 2787; cf. Guard 514). Extremely fine
£100-150

Richard Brown (†September 1868, aged 34), proprietor of the Theatre Royal Hotel, Wellington street, 1860-5. He emigrated to Australia in 1866 and was succeeded in the business by Joseph Marsden, originally from Birmingham and formerly of the Pier Inn, North quay; at least one of Brown’s tokens is known counterstamped by Marsden. The hotel was demolished in 1994 to make way for a new Marks & Spencer store (Alan Kelly, pers. comm.)