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Country: City Tokens, Birmingham, Great Britain
Currency: Currency tokens (1798-1816)
Value: 1 Penny (1/240)
Grade: VG10/08
Year: 1814
Metal: Copper
Weight: 28.3 g.
Diameter: 36 mm
Thickness: 2.5 mm
Orientation: Coin alignment ↑↓
References: Withers# 406
Obverse:
West view of the Workhouse, with date below. Lettering above and below, beaded border.
Lettering:
BIRMINGHAM
1814
ONE PENNY
Reverse:
Coat of arms, legend around with value.
Lettering: ONE POUND NOTE FOR 240 TOKENS PAYABLE AT THE WORKHOUSE
Edge:
Diagonal centre milling.
Comments:
In Britain, a workhouse (Welsh: tloty) was a total institution where those unable to support themselves financially were offered accommodation and employment. (In Scotland, they were usually known as poorhouses.) The earliest known use of the term workhouse is from 1631, in an account by the mayor of Abingdon reporting that "we have erected with'n our borough a workhouse to set poorer people to work".
Robert Blake's business was in Heigham Street, Norwich. He was a cotton-maker, bleacher, bombazine, crape and shawl manufacturer. Quality bombazine is made with a silk warp and a worsted weft. It is twilled or corded and used for dress-material.
Wikipedia = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workhouse
Référence : Withers# 406
Source : https://coinscatalog.net/great-britain/c...
Collection : English, Scottish & Irish, Conder Tokens, Commonwealth & Colonial Tokens