The Collection of Wiltshire Coins, Tokens and Paranumismatica formed by the late David Ward

19th Century Tokens, Marlborough, Stephen King, John Gosling, William Tanner and Robert Griffiths, Shilling, 1811, value, rev. legend, edge grained, 4.09g/12h (D 1). About extremely fine, very rare £150-£200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Wiltshire Coins, Tokens and Paranumismatica formed by the late David Ward.

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The Marlborough Old Bank, founded in 1791, was reconstituted on 2 January 1811 as a partnership between two of the original proprietors, Stephen King, who lived at Overton and John Gosling (†1839, aged 75), joined by William Tanner (†1847), of Blackland House, near Calne and Robert Griffiths († by 1820), a prominent solicitor in Marlborough. The bank had ceased to exist by 1853