Date:1790
Description:These tokens were used as a form of substitute currency in the last quarter of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, due to insufficient availability of official copper coinage. Struck 1790. On this side is a representation of Shakespeare perhaps influenced by the Chandos Portrait and the Chesterfield Portrait. Identity number SBT 1962-3/4
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Designed in the eighteenth-century by Jean Dassier (d. 1763). This side features ...
These tokens were used as a form of substitute currency in the last quarter of the ...
A bronze commemorative medal by F. Barre, from the Numismatica Universalis Virorum ...
A bronze medal struck for the Tercentenary by Pinches of London. This bronze ...
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Donor ref:SBT 1962-3/4 (15/9950)
Source: The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust - Museums
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