Copper Commercial Coins, 1811-1819
Details:
- Author(s) Bell, R C
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1964
- Pages 238pp; illus
- Publisher Corbitt & Hunter
- Place Published Newcastle upon Tyne
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Deals with tokens issued by businesses. Aimed primarily at collectors but describes in detail each coin which, in turn, sheds light on the business. Businesses include: Rushbury & Woolley, Bilston, metalworkers and bucklemakers; S Fereday, Bilston, iron makers; Cox & Co, Taunton, ironfounders; J Griffin & Sons, Withymoor, agricultural implement makers; J M Fellows, Nottingham, silk merchants and bankers; James Cooksey, West Bromwich, matster and victualler; Fletcher & Sharratt, Walsall, merchants; T Wood & Co, Lye, chainmakers; J Forest & Co, Lye, lock vice and hardware manufacturers; Joyce Cooper & Co, Staverton, broadcloth weavers; Union Copper Co, Birmingham, copper smelters; Crown Copper Co, Birmingham; Bunn & Johnson, Weybridge, iron works; J Chaston, Lowestoft, lined and woollen drapers