19th century tokens never seem as popular as 18th century--I think that they have something to offer----bilston Staffordshire silver sixpence-castle with lions--payable by rushbury and wooley ---they were bankers ,the bank failed 1815---wooley survived financially having got out of the partnership
That's a great looking token, wyvern. I love the value they assign to it... 1 Pound for forty tokens. Do you know the purpose of it? An advertising piece, maybe.? Bruce
There was a drastic shortage of small-denomination coinage in this period. Everybody and his brother put out tokens, some indeed in silver. George III was petitioned repeatedly to boost mint production.
there was famine between 1809 and 1813 which accelerated the move of people from the land to the cities to work in factories.this made the demand for coinage to rise-farm workers being paid in food and free housing-the mint could not keep pace with the demand so small local banks issued silver tokens to help trade.
Wow .... what an amazing coin ! I'm a fan of these coins/token that were made in such difficult times, to fill the gap left by the absence of official small change . Much history to tell !
I like these kinds of pieces too. Nice design, a cool story, probably not too many made or saved and not too expensive. That's a great combination and just the sort of thing I like. Congrats on a cool token. Jim
Very nice example of the Davis-3(Dalton-3) Staffordshire token. Rushbury and Woolley also issued two different varieties of silver shilling tokens that look very similar to this one. The shilling designated as Davis-1 is the scarce one of the three issues.
thanks for all your replies--great--this is a silver shilling of Yarmouth-Norfolk---f r Reynolds -Norfolk token for xii pence 1811-----f r Reynolds brewer and merchant-
