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E-Auction 41  29 Sep 2021
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Lot 214

Estimate: 100 USD
Price realized: 80 USD
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GREAT BRITAIN. The "OLD PRICE RIOTS." Copper medallet. 4.49 gm. 25 mm. 1809. A head left wearing a long wig with pins sticking in it; OH MY HEAD AITCHES around, OBSTINACY below / OP in the center; JOHN BULL'S JUBILEE above, CLIFFORD FOREVER below. BHM 677. Very Fine; graffito P and adjustment marks on reverse.

More on the reopened Coventry Theatre contretemps: Clifford was a theatergoer who was assaulted by the theater's box keeper because he wore an OP badge.

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