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[edit]Post-Medieval halfpenny Token (depicting Newgate Prison) | |||
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Frank Basford, 2015-08-05 21:49:40 |
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Post-Medieval halfpenny Token (depicting Newgate Prison) |
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Description |
English: An almost complete post-Medieval copper-alloy halfpenny token dating to AD 1794 (Dalton and Hamer: 1977, 140-1, nos. 391-3).
Obverse: 'NEWGATE' (top), MDCCXCIV' (bottom); Newgate Prison Reverse: PAYABLE/AT/THE RESIDENCE/OF MESSRS SYMONDS/WINTERBOTHAM/RIDGWAY/&/HOLT Diameter: 28.6mm. Weight: 7.38g. DA=12:12. The token is a satirical piece: Symonds, Winterbottom, Ridgway and Holt were at the time prisoners in Newgate prison on treason charges. Two of the men named, Henry Symonds and James Ridgway, had been imprisoned for publishing Paine's book 'The rights of man'. The token engraved by Thomas Wyon and manufactured by Peter Kempson in the name of Henry Symonds, William Winterbotham, James Ridgway and David Holt A good discussion of them via the Fitzwilliam Museum: <a href="http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/exhibitions/spence/index1.html">http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/exhibitions/spence/index1.html</a> (Accessed, 5/7/2015). |
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Depicted place | (County of findspot) Isle of Wight | ||
Date |
1794 date QS:P571,+1794-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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FindID: 735215 Old ref: IOW-273684 Filename: IOW20152333.JPG |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/527561 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/527561/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/735215 |
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