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LicenseLeeds halfpenny token
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Leeds halfpenny token
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Token, copper, 28mm diameter. Leeds halfpenny, 1793
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Token, copper, 28mm diameter. Leeds halfpenny, 1793. (DH Yorks 31). Issuer Harry Brownbill, silversmith, 1793, ½d. Obverse Bishop Blaze and a wool comb: ‘Success to the Yorkshire woollen manufactory’. Reverse Leeds cloth hall: ‘Leeds halfpenny 1793’. Notes This is a particularly fine token with excellent detail. The building is the Mixed-cloth Hall built in 1758. With some 1,800 cloth stands and its many windows for good lighting, the hall was a notable building.
Details
- Category:
- Coins, Medals & Tokens
- Object Number:
- 1977-381/15
- Materials:
- copper (metal)
- type:
- token
- credit:
- Mr. J. Newmark.
