Provincial Tokens
Middlesex Bayly's DH 253
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Coin Details
| Origin/Country: |
G.BRIT - MIDDLESEX |
| Item Description: |
1/2P (1790'S)G.B. D&h-253 MIDDLESEX - BAYLY'S E: PLAIN Middlesex DH 253 |
| Full Grade: |
NGC MS 64 BN |
| Owner: |
farthing |
Set Details
| Custom Sets: |
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| Competitive Sets: |
This coin is not competing in any sets.
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Owner Comments:
Middlesex Bayly's DH #253
Obverse: A crocodile at the edge of a swamp with a tree behind, A CROCODILE TO BE SEEN ALIVE AT G BAYLY'S MUSEUM FOR.
Reverse: A rattlesnake with a tree behind, ALL SORTS OF NATURAL HISTORY 242 PICCADILLY.
Edge: Plain
Diesinker: Charles James
Manufacturer: Charles James
Issuer: George Bayly
Rarity: Scarce
George Bayly was a dealer in all kinds of exotic and foreign birds and animals and had a shop/Natural History Museum just opposite St. Jame's Church in Piccadilly. Principally an advertising token, the token was payable at his menagerie.
Atkins: Middlesex 174
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