拍品描述： ADMIT TO WOODS MINSTRELS / 561 & 563 BDWAY NY - (1857) Rulau NY 964. Silver. Choice About Uncirculated.Five-story building at center, <em>TEMPLE OF MINSTRELSY</em> above, and <em>ERECTED/ 1857</em> below. Outer legend <em>ADMIT TO WOODS MINSTRELS/ 562 & 563 BdWAY N.Y.</em> Rv. Legend advertising performance times, etc. Legend around reads <em>WARRANTED PURE SILVER/ *INTRINSIC VALUE 25 CTS</em>. On October 15th, 1857 the troupe opened in a new minstrel hall. Known as Henry Wood’s Marble Hall, the theatre occupied 561 & 563 Broadway with seating for 2000 people. Prior to this move the company counterstamped coins to be used as an admission pass at the old address (see lot above), but with the move into the new theatre, a set of dies was created and silver tokens the size of a regular quarter were struck for this use. This change may have been precipitated by more than just the new venue, as 1857 is the same year that all foreign coins were demonetized and most of the previously countermarked coins were no longer legal tender for use as an admission fee. As the group only used the new theatre for the next two years, these tokens were certainly made in the 1857-1859 time period.From the Steve Tompkins Collection.