British Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Wiltshire Coins and Paranumismatica

LONDON, Covent Garden, Theatre Royal, First Theatre, 1796, copper, covent garden around box 1796, 27mm, 5.52g (W 121; D & W 12/122); Second Theatre, 1809, uniface copper, new theatre covent garden and date around central hole, 34mm, 13.47g (W 129, this piece illustrated); O.P. [Old Price] Riots, 1809, brass (4, three plated), draped bust of John Kemble wearing fool’s cap, trumpet and rattle below, oh my head aitches, etc, revs. o p, john bull’s jubilee, etc around, all 25mm, 4.17g, 4.08g (both W 169; D & W 17/187), 4.39g, 4.36g (both W 171) [6]. Second fine, others about very fine and better; two O.P. pieces pierced for suspension £80-£100

Provenance: W.J. McKivor Collection, additionally: all except first and last D.M. Young Collection, DNW Auction 160, 5 June 2019, lot 1164 (part) [second from S.H. Monks March 2009, third from J. Whitmore November 2003, fourth from L. McCarthy November 2002, fifth from H. Simmons October 2005]