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245, Lot: 513. Estimate $100.
Sold for $175. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRADE TOKENS, Middlesex. John Ashby, stock broker. CU Token (35mm, 15.88 g, 6h). Struck 1824-1828. Man-headed bull left; below, JOHN ASHBY/ STOCK BROKER/ - No. 3 - BARTHOLOMEW LANE/ BANK / Man-headed bear right; below, calender and office hours. Mitchiner, Jetons 3, 5790. Near EF, brown surfaces.


From the Norman Frank Collection.

In addition to representing the bull and bear markets, the creatures on this token bear the faces of Nathan Mayer Rothschild and Moses Macatta, both powerful Jewish bankers in London at the time.