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Title: any idea about this token? Post by: ROMAN STEVE on July 02, 2009, 12:55:13 PM I found this token detecting in a friends
allotment who also lives in merthyr a mile from his house is this pub named the six bells its a christmas token which also got six bells wrote on it is it for a christmas saving club? or could it be for christmas lunch?i just cant find any history about it Title: Re: any idea about this token? Post by: hedgehog on July 02, 2009, 02:19:11 PM Have seen pub tokens before Steve, it was a good way of ensuring that money was spent in your pub and not someone else's, that one looks quite modern though!
Title: Re: any idea about this token? Post by: bymatt666 (byron) on July 02, 2009, 08:18:09 PM it certainly looks like a token for a xmas drink in the six bells steve.....may have been given/won (raffle/dart team etc).....maybe a xmas "savings club"...very interesting ...well found....byron
Title: Re: any idea about this token? Post by: DIGGA on July 02, 2009, 08:50:58 PM STEVE I FOUND A LINK FOR YOU TAKE A LOOK BUD IT HAS LOADS OF OLD S WALES TOKENS ETC PERHAPS YOU COULD CONTACT THEM FOR HELP ;) ;)
http://www.coinsandtokens.com/excel/token-misc/token/token.htm (http://www.coinsandtokens.com/excel/token-misc/token/token.htm) Title: Re: any idea about this token? Post by: bymatt666 (byron) on July 02, 2009, 09:13:34 PM i've added that link to my favourites....thanks digga !...byron
Title: Re: any idea about this token? Post by: The Doc on July 02, 2009, 10:36:35 PM It's a pub check. Nothing to do with Christmas in a festive way though, Christmas Evans was the owner's name. See here:
http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/heolgerrig.htm (http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/heolgerrig.htm) There was (is?) a pub in Gilfach Goch also called the Six Bells, and as far as I can see was also run by Christmas Evans. I think that Christmas Evans died in 1909, but don't know if he was the same man. Title: Re: any idea about this token? Post by: hedgehog on July 02, 2009, 11:09:58 PM That's interesting Peter , sure Steve will be please with that, impressive i.d. there!
Title: Re: any idea about this token? Post by: ROMAN STEVE on July 02, 2009, 11:22:25 PM Thanks doc quite pleased with that looks like
i was barking up the wrong tree for info i have been on that site a number of times old merthyr tydfil but the penny didnt drop but in my case the token ;D |