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Image files are licensed Public Domain Mark 1.0. Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, 18271230. Photographs by Christian Stoess.

Birmingham, Arbeitshaus: Marke

Class/status: Private issue, Authority: Arbeitshaus Birmingham

Denomination: Shilling (GBP)

Date: 1811

Country: Great Britain
Mint:

Obverse: BIRMINGHAM TOKEN // 1811 / ONE SHILLING. Frontansicht des Birminghamer Arbeitshauses (Birmingham workhouse).
Reverse: ONE POUND NOTE - FOR 20 TOKENS / PAYABLE AT - THE WORKHOUSE. Das Wappen von Birmingham.
Rim: Kerbrand

Production: struck

Tokens and Labels, Silver, 4,61 g, 25 mm, 12 h


Previous owners:
Helmut Lewandowski (1946-2006) until 2006

Publications: W. J. Davis, The Nineteenth Century Token coinage of Great Britain Ireland the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man to which are added Tokens over one Penny value of any period (1904/Nachdruck 1969) 144 Nr. 9; P. und B. R. Withers, The Token Book. British Tokens of the 17th 18th and 19th centuries and their values (2010) 416 Nr. 6-15.

Photographer Obverse: Christian Stoess
Photographer Reverse: Christian Stoess

Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen
Accession 2020/28 Year of access 2020 Zugangsart Schenkung

Recommended Quotation: Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 18271230

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