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1/2 Penny Middlesex - Newgate / Symonds
Issuer | United Kingdom |
Year | 1795 |
Type | Token |
Value | 1/2 Penny (1⁄480) |
Currency | Conder tokens (1787-1797) |
Composition | Copper |
Weight | 10.6 g |
Dimensions | 27.5 mm |
Thickness | |
Shape and Technique | Round
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Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
Engraver(s) | |
In circulation to | |
Reference(s) | DH#396, Atkins#282 |
Obverse description | Front view of Newgate prison, gratings over the side doors have cross bars as well as upright ones, no period after date in exergue. |
Obverse script | Latin |
Obverse lettering | NEWGATE
1795 |
Reverse description | Plain design, horizontal legend across 8 lines. Note: tail of the `&` turns up |
Reverse script | Latin |
Reverse lettering | PAYABLE
AT
THE RESIDENCE
OF MESSRS SYMONDS
WINTERBOTHAM
RIDGWAY
&
HOLT |
Edge | Milled |
Mint | |
Mintage | 1795 - DH#396 - CURRENT EVERYWHERE - 1795 - DH#396a - PAYABLE AT THE WAREHOUSES OF D. WRIGHT & S. PALMER . X . - 1795 - DH#396b - milled edge -
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Catalog ID | 6802766670 |
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