- Object name(s):
- trade token; token
- Brief description:
- copper token; obverse has figure of Hope leaning upon an anchor with name 'JAS BAYLY, DRAPER, POOLE' in shield; reverse has arms of Poole with legend around and date under; around edge says 'I PROMISE TO PAY ON DEMAND ONE HALFPENNY'
- Collection:
- Poole Museum
- Acquisition date:
- Date - earliest / single:
- 13.5.1983
- Associated concept:
- coins & medals
- Condition:
- fair
- Dimension:
- diameter
- Dimension value:
- 2.9 cm
- Inscription content:
- obverse : JAS BAYLY, DRAPER, POOLE
- Inscription content:
- reverse : PROSPERITY TO THE TOWN OF POOLE, 1795
- Number of objects:
- 1
- Object name:
- trade token; token
- Object number:
- POOMS:1983.155
- Object production date:
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1795
- Object production person:
- Bayly, James
- Person's association:
- draper
- Person's biographical note:
- Poole
- Object production place:
- Poole
- Other number:
- T:1996.5189
- Other number:
- OR1176
- Other number type:
- previous number
- User's reference:
- Dalton, R. : : The Provincial Token-Coinage of the 18th Century : : p.27
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/13ed685a-db14-3f55-a8df-92c8b2c4dda7
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/13ed685a-db14-3f55-a8df-92c8b2c4dda7, Poole Museum, CC BY-NC
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