Rare, British Hammered coins, Milled coins, Tokens
& Medallions - Numismatics of England, Scotland & Ireland
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1812
Younge Wilsons & Younge
Yorkshire Token

George III gold token “10/6”.
Or Half Guinea, 1812.
A significant piece as a link between the Half Guinea and theHalf Sov.
This piece came from Sheffield (Yorkshire, Harmer D.37),
The major producing city of silvr city plate

The difference between a Bank Note and a Token is this : a Bank Note is a promissory note of a good and known trade ; a Token is a promissory note of A. B. at Birmingham, or C. D. at York or anybody, or nobody whom nobody knows, but everyone is taken upon trust. A Bank Note may be enforced by legal process; it is worth the law, and worth the carriage to the firm ; but if a labourer at the extreme of Yorkshire has a York Token, or perhaps a Birmingham or
Manchester Token, will it pay him to send it by post or travel with it to the place from which it was issued ?

" The simple mischief of all these tokens is this : they are bad money, an adulterated coin. They are made as matter of merchandise and profit, and of course the makers must have something beyond their intrinsic value."







Rare, British Hammered coins, Milled coins, Tokens
& Medallions - Numismatics of England, Scotland & Ireland
British coin collecting