British and World Coins. Tokens and Historical Medals

Mines de Lens, 1899, a plated bronze plaque by L.-O. Roty, miner with pick-axe at coal-face, reverse the Lens mine, 67 x 47mm (PBE 877; Coll. R. Marx –; Maz. 177; Baxter 36; Hamlet –; BDM V, 238; cf. BDW 5, 20). Some surface marks, otherwise about very fine, toned, scarce (£40-60)

Lens, dép. Pas-de-Calais, recently better known for its football stadium