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Record ID: WMID-9D6540
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Birmingham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Modern Victorian copper alloy token dating to circa AD 1862 - 1893.
Obverse: The token is circular with a central circular field with a shield at the centre and the word 'FORWARD' written underneath in a scroll. Surrounding this in a circumferential circular band is the address: SMALLBROOK STREET BIRMINGHAM. A further outer circumferential field reads: DAY'S CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERT HALL.
Reverse: The central circular field has a 3d symbol for the value of the token. In the surrounding circumferential field it reads: THE SAME EVENING AS RECIEVED. The outer field reads: TO …
Created on: Tuesday 22nd March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2022
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Record ID: WMID-4EBD49
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Walsall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy trade token dating from the Modern Period (AD 1800).
The token is a one penny token struck in 1812 by the Union Copper Company of Birmingham. The obverse depicts two hands joined in the centre of the field. Above there is what looks like a quatrefoil flanked by two pellets, below is the date 1812. The legend reads: [ ]ION COPPER COMPANY BIRMINGHAM. The reverse has the words 'ONE PENNY TOKEN' struck in the field, the legend reads PAYABLE IN CASH NOTES.
The token measures 36.02 mm in diameter, it is 3.41 mm thick and it weighs 26.6 g. The tokn is a mid to d…
Created on: Friday 8th August 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 19th August 2014
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Record ID: WMID-26D175
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Solihull
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete struck / hammered copper alloy token, issued by John Cooke and Sons, of London, between AD 1830 and AD 1940.
It imitates a Venetian gold ducat. The obverse legend is fictitious and reads OVCHMEI (left anticlockwise); YCOC (centre vert.); IDOT NOCEN (right clockwise). The reverse legend alludes to the Issuer, John Cooke and Sons, and reads JOANNES ILLE COQVVS SVI FILIIQVE. It is normally struck on a pierced flan, with scalloped edges.
It has a diameter of 18.73 mm and is 0.87 mm thick. It weighs 0.9 grams.
John Cooke and Sons issued imitation foreigns coins to adve…
Created on: Thursday 1st November 2012
Last updated: Thursday 22nd November 2012
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