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Name or Denominations
1 Farthing (1⁄960)
Issuer
United Kingdom
Ruler
NA
Year of Minting
1861-1871
Currency
Pound sterling ( 1158-1971 )
Shape
Round
Rarity
Ultra rare
Weight
NA
Diameter
22 mm
Thickness
NA
Material
Bronze
Shape
Round
Edge Type
Plain.
Technique
Milled
Front design
Portrait left, legend around.
Back design
Advertising across seven lines, first and last curved.
Year of Minting
1861-1871
Ruler
NA
Mint location
NA
Mint mark
NA
Orientation
Medal alignment ↑↑
Inscriptions
Obverse: VICTORIA QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN Reverse: T.PERKINS TEA DEALER & COFFEE ROASTER HIGH ST. CHEPSTOW
Context
1843-1876 Thomas Perkins, grocer, 9 and 28 High Street. 1876-1884 Thomas Perkins & Son, wine & spirit merchants, 9 High Street. 1884-1887 as previous, but 1 The Priory. (N & A Cox). 1851 census: Thomas Perkins 30, born in Chepstow, wife Eliza, 30, born in Cardiff, they had two children named after their parents. They had a shopman and a housemaid. In 1861 only the son remained at home helping his father in the business. They had two shop assistants and a domestic help. In 1871 he styled himself as grocer and wine merchant, his son, now 25, was working in the business along with a shopman, and one general servant. In 1881 he was a brewer and wine merchant, still in the High Street, with his wife, a 14-year-old niece and a servant.
Rarity
Ultra rare
Coin type
Emergency coinage › Merchant tokens
In circulation
No
Demonetized
Yes
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