Æ 28.7mm diameter. GOOD FOR ONE PENNYWORTH OF REFRESHMENTS AT R. SHORTS COCOA ROOMS in three lines ornaments between. Owens 69. Good EF - UNC with much original lustre and a blue bloom.
Simon Short, one of the pioneers of the movement, opened his first cocoa rooms in Bristol in 1870. He died in 1901.
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