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Auction 160 5-6 Jun 2019
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Theatre and Entertainment, OXFORD STREET, The Pantheon, Italian Opera, silver-plated copper, frontal elevation of the Pantheon dividing engraved p s [Prince's Side], 1790=1 engraved in exergue, rev. italian opera pantheon, box no. 97, named (Baron Nolcken), 34mm, 13.88g (W 378, this piece; cf. D & W 33/350-1; Young, Entertainments, p.15, this piece). Minor rim nicks, otherwise about very fine, very rare £300-£400
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Provenance: W.J. Noble Collection, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 61B (Melbourne), 3-4 August 1999, lot 707 [from Spink 1975]; bt T. Millett October 2003.
Gustavus Adam, Baron Nolcken, FRS (1733-1812), Swedish diplomat in London from the mid-1760s and former chargé d'affaires in Berlin, lived at Richmond, Surrey. He was a personal friend of Gustav IV Adolf (1778-1837) and hosted the king at his villa in Richmond after Gustav was forced to abdicate in 1809
Theatre and Entertainment, OXFORD STREET, The Pantheon, Italian Opera, silver-plated copper, frontal elevation of the Pantheon dividing engraved p s [Prince's Side], 1790=1 engraved in exergue, rev. italian opera pantheon, box no. 97, named (Baron Nolcken), 34mm, 13.88g (W 378, this piece; cf. D & W 33/350-1; Young, Entertainments, p.15, this piece). Minor rim nicks, otherwise about very fine, very rare £300-£400
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Provenance: W.J. Noble Collection, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 61B (Melbourne), 3-4 August 1999, lot 707 [from Spink 1975]; bt T. Millett October 2003.
Gustavus Adam, Baron Nolcken, FRS (1733-1812), Swedish diplomat in London from the mid-1760s and former chargé d'affaires in Berlin, lived at Richmond, Surrey. He was a personal friend of Gustav IV Adolf (1778-1837) and hosted the king at his villa in Richmond after Gustav was forced to abdicate in 1809