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Image files are licensed Public Domain Mark 1.0. Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, 18271243. Photographs by Christian Stoess.

Lewis, Morgan und Morgan Morgan u. a.: Marke

Class/status: Private issue, Authority: Morgan Lewis / Morgan Morgan / David Williams / William Williams

Denomination: Shilling (GBP)

Date: 1811

Country: Great Britain
Mint: (England)

Obverse: TO FACILITATE TRADE CHANGE BEING SCARCE - 1811 -/ MERTHYR SILVER TOKEN - FOR 12 PENCE. Die Helmzier des Prince of Wales.
Reverse: A POUND NOTE GIVEN FOR 20 OF THESE TOKENS -/ BY / MORGN LEWIS / MORGN MORGAN / DAVID WILLIAMS / WM WILLIAMS / MERTHYR TIDVIL [N sowie M hochgestellt]. Aufschrift in sechs Zeilen umgeben von der Umschrift.
Rim: Kerbrand

Production: struck

Tokens and Labels, Silver, 4,07 g, 25 mm, 12 h


Previous owners:
(1946-2006) until 2006

Publications: R. Dalton, The Silver Token-Coinage mainly issued between 1811 and 1812 (1922) 54 Nr. 8; 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) 193 Nr. 7; P. und B. R. Withers, The Token Book. British Tokens of the 17th 18th and 19th centuries and their values (2010) 423 Nr. 8-9.

Photographer Obverse: Christian Stoess
Photographer Reverse: Christian Stoess

Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen
Accession 2020/41 Zugangsart Schenkung

Recommended Quotation: Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 18271243

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