Coins and Historical Medals

Broker’s badge, type 5, 1837-84, a struck silver badge by B. Wyon, similar, named (Archibald Hudson), 41mm, 24.40g (Naylor 7; Caldecott 4; W 2766; E 1239). Good very fine, toned £300-360

Provenance: E.W. Danson Collection, DNW Auction M13, 6 December 2012, lot 1238.

Archibald Hudson (1820-56), a stock and share broker who lived in Stoke Newington, married Jane Mary Anne Warrington in 1851; they had four children (two posthumous). He is buried in Highgate Cemetery