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Image files are licensed Public Domain Mark 1.0. Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, 18271478. Photographs by Christian Stoess.

Birmingham, Arbeitshaus: Marke

Class/status: Private issue, Authority: Arbeitshaus Birmingham

Denomination: Shilling (GBP)

Date: 1812

Country: Great Britain
Mint: (England)

Obverse: BIRMINGHAM TOKEN -/ 1812 / ONE SHILLING. Frontansicht des Birminghamer Arbeitshauses.
Reverse: ONE POUND NOTE - FOR 20 TOKENS / PAYABLE AT - THE WORKHOUSE. Das Wappen von Birmingham.
Rim: Kerbrand

Production: struck

Tokens and Labels, Silver, 4,73 g, 25 mm, 12 h

Die-cutter:
Peter Wyon

Previous owners:
(1946-2006) until 2006

Publications: R. Dalton, The Silver Token-Coinage mainly issued between 1811 and 1812 (1922) 41 Nr. 17; 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) 145 Nr. 15; A.W. Waters, Notes on the Silver Tokens of the Nineteenth Century (1957) 15 unter Birmingham; P. und B. R. Withers, The Token Book. British Tokens of the 17th 18th and 19th centuries and their values (2010) 416 Nr. 17-20.

Stempelschneider Peter Wyon.

Photographer Obverse: Christian Stoess
Photographer Reverse: Christian Stoess

Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen
Accession 2020/126 Year of access 2020 Zugangsart Schenkung

Recommended Quotation: Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 18271478

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