W.1341.
38mm. WM. By W.J Taylor.
Obverse showing archway leading to garden, building in background, St Helena Tavern on archway and Rotherhithe in exergue. Reverse with 'refreshment to the value of sixpence' within wreath.
Good Very Fine with some underlying brilliance and rare.
The gardens associated with the St Helena tavern opened in 1770 and later became popular with the dockyard population of the neighbourhood, but it had closed by the end of the 1860s. Re-opened by Messrs. William and John Carter in 1874, admission was fixed at sixpence – almost certainly the metal tokens by Taylor were struck at that time. The gardens finally closed in 1881 and the site built over.