Owner Comments:
Middlesex Skidmore's Churches and Gates DH #668
Obverse: A north view of St. Mary's, Church Street, Rotherhithe ST. MARY'S . ROTHERHITHE BUILT . 1739. Ex: JACOBS in small letters
Reverse: The Skidmore cypher - PSCO in script, DEDICATED . TO . COLLECTORS . OF . MEDALS. & COINS . surrounding
Edge: Plain
Diesinker: Benjamin Jacobs
Manufacturer: Paul Skidmore
Weight: 11.82g
Rarity: Common
St. Mary's stands in Church Street, near the former entrance of the old Thames Tunnel. Building began in 1714 by permission of Parliament and was completed in 1715, the tower was added in 1738.
The family business of the token manufacturer Peter Skidmore was an iron foundry at 15 Coppice Row in Clerkenwell with a shop at No. 123, High Holborn. Skidmore realized that there was a market for tokens as the genuine tradesmen's pieces of the time were very keenly collected as they were issued. As well as making genuine tradesmens' tokens to order, he also made pennies and halfpennies for sale to collectors of the time - especially series of Buildings Tokens for London.
One of a set of 120 pieces - each portraying a well-known church in or around London.
Atkins: Surrey 20
Bt. Jerry Bobbe