- Code 051022-3
Nottinghamshire, Newark, 1 shilling, 1811
Silver. Diameter 24.3mm. NEWARK SILVER TOKEN FOR ONE SHILLING around view of the building, TOWN HALL 1811 in exergue. R. THE CURRENT VALUE· PAYABLE IN CASH NOTES around, T STANSALL CHAS MOOR RICHD FISHER WM FILLINGHAM WM READETT AND T WILSON in the centre. Dalton 5. Strong Good Fine.
Of the token issuers Thomas Stansall and William Readett were grocers, Charles Moor was a chemist, Richard Fisher and William Fillingham were drapers, and Thomas Wilson was a brazier. Of all those, only Thomas Wilson never became mayor of Newark.
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