Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection
Commerce, CORNHILL, Sun Fire Office, 1737, cast copper, radiant sun, rev. date, 30mm, 16.07g (W 2326, this piece illustrated). Very fine and very rare £90-£120
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Provenance: Bt S.H. Monks June 2016.
The Sun Fire Office was opened in April 1710; the company merged with the Alliance Insurance Co Ltd in 1959 to form Royal & Sun Alliance