British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

Theatre and Entertainment, OXFORD STREET, The Pantheon, 1772, silver, frontal elevation of the Pantheon, rev. no. 23 pantheon in wreath above date, 34mm, 18.17g (W 375, this piece listed; D & W 33/349; Young, Entertainments, p.13, this piece). Toning spot on reverse, otherwise about extremely fine and toned, very rare £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection.

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Provenance: A.P. Adams Collection, Part III, Glendining Auction, 21 March 1990, lot 188a (part); W.J. Noble Collection, Part II, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 61B (Melbourne), 3-4 August 1999, lot 735 (part).

Opened in 1772, the Pantheon, or Winter Ranelagh, became a fashionable concert venue in the 1780s and was equipped as an opera house in 1789, but was destroyed by fire in 1792. Rebuilt in 1795, it was converted into a theatre in 1812, but closed in 1814. Today the site is occupied by Marks & Spencer