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Object Type
Museum number: SSB,192.51.1
Denomination: penny
Description: Metal alloy token. (whole); Full face bust in very high relief. (obverse); A book lying at the foot of a tree, a church in the distance. Inscription above following the curve of the token. Three lines of inscription in a section off part below. (reverse)
Authority
Production date: 1801
Production place: Issued in: Sawbridgeworth
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Dimensions: Weight: 31.500 grammes
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: According to Dalton & Hamer catalogue footnote "This is an exceedingly rare Private Token, only four specimens being known, one of which is badly defaced. In all probability James was the Engraver."
Bibliographic references: Dalton & Hamer / The Provincial Token Coinage of the Eighteenth Century (1, p.54); Davis 1969 / The nineteenth century token coinage of Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man (1, p.62)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: book/newspaper; tree/bush; church
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Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1818
Department: Coins and Medals
Registration number: SSB,192.51.1

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