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EM17626

Gloucestershire 1662 Token Farthing of City Port of Bristol

Gloucestershire, Bristol, City Farthing, 1662, City arms of a ship sailing left from a Seagate, beaded inner and outer circles with legend surrounding both sides, initial mark cinquefoil, THE. ARMES. OF. BRISTOLL, rev. cinquefoil between large C B for City of Bristol, date below, small R below for engraver David Ramage, legend with initial mark cinquefoil, A. BRISTOLL. FARTHING, weight 3.22g (BW 18). Toned a pleasing very fine.

These municipal pieces were struck for small change in Bristol from 1651 till 1670 and this City led the way in producing its own City tokens perhaps to suppress the issue of privately issued pieces of which only five types are known for Bristol, not many for what was a City of some 15,000 inhabitants at the time. The large issue of these City pieces therefore met the demand for the need for small change in every day transactions and represent a very important piece of social history.

Provenance:

This coin illustrated in "Coinage and Currency in Eighteenth Century Britain, The Provincial Coinage" by David W Dykes, page 16, number 19d.

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