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6 Pence Staffordshire - Bilston / Rushbury and Woolley
| Issuer | Rushbury and Woolley (Bilston, Staffordshire) |
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| Year | 1811 |
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| Value | 6 Pence (1⁄40) |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts a crenellated castle or town wall with a prominent arched gateway, rendered in fine relief against a flat field. Four lions passant are positioned at the corners and base of the fortification, resting on a grassy ground line. The circular legend reads BILSTON SILVER TOKEN along the upper periphery, with SIX PENCE inscribed along the lower arc, all in raised Latin lettering within a milled border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Rushbury and Woolley operated as button manufacturers in Bilston, a Black Country town that had become a center of small metal goods production by the early nineteenth century. Their 1811 sixpence belongs to the short-lived wave of provincial silver tokens issued after chronic small-change shortages — worsened by wartime silver hoarding and the Royal Mint's near-total neglect of low-denomination coinage — left local traders unable to make change for daily transactions. Parliament suppressed the entire class of private silver tokens in 1812, giving pieces like this a circulation window of a single year at most.