Trade token
- Description
- This quarter penny token was issued by Samuel Kingdon, an ironmonger and haberdasher in Exeter. It depicts Bishop Blaize, patron saint of the woollen industry. At this time Exeter owed much of its wealth to the cloth industry.
- Accession Loan No.
- 261/1999/2
- Collection Class
- Numismatics
- Common Name
- trade token
- Simple Name
- token
- Full Name
- Exeter quarter-penny trade token, Bishop Blaize woollen industry
- Dimensions
- whole diameter 22 mm; whole depth 1 mm
- Period Classification
- George III (1760-1811)
- Family Group
- Material
- copper alloy
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
- Mint
- Birmingham
- Moneyer
- John G Hancock
- Issuer Person
- Samuel Kingdon
- Place
- Exeter
- Inscription / Transcription
- SUCCESS TO THE WOOLLEN INDUSTRY
