Owner Comments:
Buckinghamshire Slough DH #22
Obverse: The Shield and Arms of the family Till, W. TILL, WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANT 1794.
Reverse: Lion rampant to left standing in a field, HALFPENNY TOKEN SLOUGH BUCKS RED LION INN.
Edge: Plain
Diesinker: W. J. Taylor
Manufacturer: W. J. Taylor
Issuer: William Till
Rarity: Scarce
William Till (died April 1844), coin dealer at 17 Great Russell Street, Covent Garden, London. The Slough tokens made for him by W. J. Taylor, c.1839, commemorate his father, also William, who was a wine and spirit merchant and the proprietor of the Red Lion Inn, formerly located on the north side of the Great West Road near the corner of Stoke Poges Lane, now the Brunel bus station in Slough.
Atkins: Buckinghamshire 23
Stacks St. Ludovico & Firth of Clyde Sale, 22 April 2009