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Knapp & Co.: Marke

Class/status: Private issue, Authority: Knapp & Company

Denomination: Shilling (GBP)

Date: 1811-1812

Country: Great Britain
Mint:

Obverse: CHARING - CROSS. Das umzäunte Reiterstandbild des Karl I.
Reverse: KNAPP / & CO / ONE / SHILLING [das O hochgestellt]. Aufschrift in vier Zeilen in Eichenkranz. Unten H M (Henry Morgan).
Rim: Kerbrand

Production: struck

Tokens and Labels, Silver, 3,57 g, 25 mm, 12 h

Producer:
Henry Morgan
Sitter:
Charles I (1625-1649), king of England, Scotland and Ireland

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

Publications: R. Dalton, The Silver Token-Coinage mainly issued between 1811 and 1812 (1922) 18 Nr. 12; 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) 71 Nr. 11; A. W. Waters, Notes on the Silver Tokens of the Nineteenth Century (1957) 8 Middlesex (London); P. und B. R. Withers, The Token Book. British Tokens of the 17th 18th and 19th centuries and their values (2010) 402 Nr. 12.

Die Firma Knapp & Co. konnte bisher nicht zurückverfolgt werden. Es handelt sich bei diesem Token um ein Produkt Henry Morgans, der die Firma Knapp & Co. erfunden zu haben scheint.

Photographer Obverse: Christian Stoess
Photographer Reverse: Christian Stoess

Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen
Accession 2020/33 Year of access 2020 Zugangsart Schenkung

Recommended Quotation: Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 18271235

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