Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

Theatre and Entertainment, OXFORD STREET, The Pantheon, 1772, copper, frontal elevation of the Pantheon, rev. no. pantheon in wreath above date, 34mm, 15.50g (W 375; D & W 33/348). Extremely fine with a hint of original colour £100-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection.

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Provenance: A.P. Adams Collection, Part III, Glendining Auction, 21 March 1990, lot 188a (part); W.J. Noble Collection, Part II, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 61B (Melbourne), 3-4 August 1999, lot 735 (part).

Opened in 1772, the Pantheon, or Winter Ranelagh, became a fashionable concert venue in the 1780s and was equipped as an opera house in 1789, but was destroyed by fire in 1792. Rebuilt in 1795, it was converted into a theatre in 1812, but closed in 1814. Today the site is occupied by Marks & Spencer