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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)
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).
Depicted place (County of findspot) Isle of Wight
Date 1794
date QS:P571,+1794-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
FindID: 735215
Old ref: IOW-273684
Filename: IOW20152333.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source 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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