Watch List notes:

BRITISH 18TH CENTURY TOKENS, ENGLAND, Gilbert Pidcock, (1743-1810), owner and operator of a traveling menagerie and, later, of a permanent exhibition on The Strand, in London, Copper Halfpenny, 1795, obv elephant facing left, * PIDCOCKS * * above, EXHIBITION below, rev antelope standing left, * PIDCOCK'S * EXHIBITION * ALIVE. around, 1795 in exergue, edge plain (Atkins p.106, 306a; D&H Middlesex 420a). Nearly very fine, very rare.

ex Lincoln Number 1 Collection

ex F S Cokayne Collection, acquired 17 March 1934

Estimate: £70-90