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30 September 2021

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British Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Wiltshire Coins and Paranumismatica

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№ 582 x

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30 September 2021

Hammer Price:
£150

LONDON, Covent Garden, Theatre Royal, Second Theatre, O.P. [Old Price] Riots, 1809, white metal, unsigned [perhaps by P. Wyon], John Bull on an ass left, holding whips inscribed old price’s and open boxes, the animal with the head of John Philip Kemble, rev. p within o in centre, laurel, rattle and trumpet around, 43mm, 27.40g (W 168; D & W 17/185; BHM 675; E 1005). Some spotting, otherwise good very fine, retaining original brilliance £90-£120

Provenance: W.J. McKivor Collection