1 Shilling Hampshire - Andover / Wakeford's

1 Shilling (Hampshire - Andover / Wakeford's) - obverse1 Shilling (Hampshire - Andover / Wakeford's) - reverse

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Features

Issuer United Kingdom (United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies)
Type Token
Year 1811
Value 1 Shilling (1⁄20)
Currency Currency tokens (1798-1816)
Composition Silver
Weight 3.7 g
Diameter 25 mm
Thickness 0.5 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized 1817
Number
N#
108067
References Dalton# 11,
Richard Dalton; 1968. The Silver Token Coinage Mainly Issued Between 1811-12. Seaby, London, United Kingdom.
Davis# 9
William John Davis; 1904. The Nineteenth Century Token Coinage of of Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, to which are added tokens of over one penny value of any period. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

Borough Arms (a lion standing in front of an oak tree)

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ANDOVER TOKEN
FOR XII PENCE

Reverse

Wreath of oak leaves containing four-line inscription above date

Script: Latin

Lettering: PAYABLE BY W. S. & I. WAKEFORD 1811

Edge

Plain

Comments

These were issued by William Steele, and Joseph Wakeford who were drapers and bankers in Andover.
Obverse and reverse varieties exist, also struck in copper (similar token date 1812 is Dalton#20, Davis#17).

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1811 

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