Middlesex token, Newgate, 1795.

Middlesex token, Newgate, 1795. Middlesex token, Newgate, 1795. Token, copper, 28mm diameter. Middlesex token, Newgate, 1795

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Middlesex token, Newgate, 1795.
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Middlesex token, Newgate, 1795.
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Token, copper, 28mm diameter. Middlesex token, Newgate, 1795
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Token, copper, 28mm diameter. Middlesex token, Newgate, 1795. (DH Mddx 396b). Issuer Unknown, 1795. Obverse View of Newgate Prison: ‘Newgate 1795’. Reverse ‘Payable at the residence of Messrs Symonds, Winterbotham, Ridgway & Holt’. Notes This token records the imprisonment of the four named men, for sedition, in 1794. The reference to ‘payable’ is, of course, satirical, the ‘residence’ being Newgate prison. Other tokens similar to this one were issued, sometimes by people whose names appeared on the edges.

Details

Category:
Coins, Medals & Tokens
Object Number:
1977-381/100
Materials:
copper (metal)
type:
token
credit:
Mr. J. Newmark.