Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

Theatre and Entertainment, ST JAMES’S, St James’s Theatre, uniface copper, the st james’s theatre around pit, stamped 237, 40mm, 19.37g (W 352, and p.48, this piece illustrated; D & W –). Good fine, rare £80-100

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: DNW Auction T4, 13 December 2006, lot 1358.

St James’s Theatre, built in 1835, played host to a panoply of great actors and actresses over a period of 120 years before it was closed in 1957