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Monck, John Berkeley: Marke

Class/status: Private issue, Authority: John Berkeley Monck (19.9.1769 - 13.12.1834)

Denomination: 40 Shillings (token, GBP)

Date: 1812

Country: Great Britain
Mint: Birmingham (England)

Obverse: PIGNORA CERTA PETIS DO PIGNORA CERTA - 1812 [Du verlangst sichere Bürgschaften, ich gebe dir sichere Bürgschaften]. Brustbild des Alfred von Wessex im Harnisch mit Krone nach links. Über der linken Schulter das Lilienzepter. Darunter ALFRED.
Reverse: PAYABLE IN BK. NOTES AT 6 S. THE DWT. BY I. B. MONCK ESQRE. -/ 40 / SHILLINGS / BERKS TOKEN / STANDD. GOLD / DWTS. GR. / 6 18 / READING [6 pennyweights 18 grains, Buchstaben teilweise hochgestellt]. Wert- und Gewichtsangabe in sieben Zeilen umgeben von der Umschrift.

Production: struck

Tokens and Labels, Gold, 10,39 g, 27 mm, 12 h

Producer:
Edward Thomason
Sitter:
Alfred of Wessex (871-899)

Previous owners:
(1946-2006) until 2006

Publications: R. Dalton, The Silver Token-Coinage mainly issued between 1811 and 1812 (1922) 1 Nr. 1; 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) 29 Nr. 1; A. W. Waters, Notes on the Silver Tokens of the Nineteenth Century (1957) 1 Reading; P. und B. R. Withers, The Token Book. British Tokens of the 17th 18th and 19th centuries and their values (2010) 389 Nr. 1.

Hergestellt durch Edward Thomason.

Photographer Obverse: Christian Stoess
Photographer Reverse: Christian Stoess

Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen
Accession 2020/142 Zugangsart Schenkung

Recommended Quotation: Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 18271494

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