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Image files are licensed Public Domain Mark 1.0. Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, 18271397. Photographs by Christian Stoess.

Dublin: Marke

Class/status: Private issue

Denomination: Shilling (GBP)

Date: 1804

Country: Great Britain
Mint:

Obverse: PUBLIC HAPPINESS -/ 2 DWT - 20 GS // STERLING 1804 [2 pennyweights 20 grains]. Dreifuß, um den sich eine Schlange windet. Am Boden Globus und Lorbeerzweige.
Reverse: PRO BONO - PUBLICO. Eine weibliche Gestalt mit Lorbeerkranz steht nach links und legt eine Krone auf eine Stele. Auf der Stele HEALTH / TO THE / KING.

Production: struck

Tokens and Labels, Silver, 4,21 g, 24 mm, 12 h


Previous owners:
(1946-2006) until 2006

Publications: R. Dalton, The Silver Token-Coinage mainly issued between 1811 and 1812 (1922) 56 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) 212 Nr. 7; P. und B. R. Withers, The Token Book. British Tokens of the 17th 18th and 19th centuries and their values (2010) 424 Nr. 8-9.

Photographer Obverse: Christian Stoess
Photographer Reverse: Christian Stoess

Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen
Accession 2020/86 Year of access 2020 Zugangsart Schenkung

Recommended Quotation: Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 18271397

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