Princess Theatre Advertising Token For “Gold Guinea”, 1877. New Sensational Drama, By HJ Byron’s.
 
This copper token resembling a coin was in fact an advertisment for the Princess's Theatre in London's Oxford Street. The autumn season 1877 opened on the 10 September with a new melodrama by H.J. Byron entitled Guinea Gold, or the Lights and Shadows of London Life starring William Rignold as the murderous villain Richard Rawlinson, and Lydia Foote as the orphan girl Guinea Gold. The cast also featured a young Fanny Leslie, later to become a well-known burlesque star, as a servant boy. H.J. Byron was better known for his comedies and burlesques, but this melodrama by him was chosen by the new lessee of the Princess's Theatre, Mr. Walter Gooch, as the first production of the season.
 
A nice example, with a grey tone.