1 Shilling Warwickshire - Birmingham / Workhouse

1 Shilling (Warwickshire - Birmingham / Workhouse) - obverse1 Shilling (Warwickshire - Birmingham / Workhouse) - 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
Diameter 25 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
18018
References Dalton# 6,
Richard Dalton; 1968. The Silver Token Coinage Mainly Issued Between 1811-12. Seaby, London, United Kingdom.
Davis# 5
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

View of the Birmingham Workhouse

Script: Latin

Lettering:
BIRMINGHAM TOKEN
1811
ONE SHILLING

Reverse

Shield in centre.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ONE POUND NOTE
FOR 20 TOKENS
PAYABLE AT
THE WORKHOUSE

Edge

Milled

Comments

The Birmingham Workhouse for the Overseers of the Poor was located in Lichfield Street, Birmingham and accommodated 600 paupers and children at its peak.
Obverse and reverse varieties exist.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1811 

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