Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Historical Medals

Rothschild Foundation Prize, a copper medal, unsigned, legend, rev. wreath, named (Marks Bensky, 2nd Prize, 5650-1890), 55mm (E 1522). With integral suspension ring, about very fine, extremely rare £200-£300

The Jews’ Free School, founded by Moses Hart in 1732, occupied various sites in London before locating at Bell lane, Spitalfields. By the end of the 19th century, when it had some 4,000 pupils and was the largest school in Europe, one third of all Jewish children passed through its doors