Corporation GND

Name

Bristol Commercial Token Company

Consortium of five traders, Francis Garratt, William Terrell, Edward Bird, Lancelot Beck, and Francis Hore Grigg in Bristol.

The so-called Garrat group issued tokens in 1811 (and also one-pound and five-pound notes).

Lit.: J. O'Donald Mays, Silver Tokens and Bristol, The British Numismatic Journal 48, 1978, p. 102; P. and B. R. Withers, The Token Book. British Tokens of the 17th 18th and 19th centuries and their values (2010) p. 409 nos. 23-9; A.W. Waters, Notes on the Silver Tokens of the Nineteenth Century (1957) p. 11 under Bristol.

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Authority Info

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG104607

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