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Title: what`s the background on this? Post by: Stig(The) on June 22, 2009, 07:04:29 PM Pete,can you share your knowledge & tell me what you know about this:
Pic is of a Bristol token,dated Augt 12.1811,for X11 Pence with what looks like a Sailing ship Leaving a castle in the centre & the words;virtute et industria. On the reverse it says;to facilitate trade & a list of names,the first 4 are too worn to read,the final 3 are;Edw`d Bird,Lan`t Beck & Fran`s H Grigg. Thanks ??? Title: Re: what`s the background on this? Post by: waltonbasinman on June 22, 2009, 07:10:07 PM The Ship and Castle are part of the modern City of Bristol insignia and the same is used as the club crest by Bristol City football club and dates back to the medieval period. Not sure what the rest means.
Title: Re: what`s the background on this? Post by: waltonbasinman on June 22, 2009, 07:13:50 PM Here is the current Bristol City F C badge.
Title: Re: what`s the background on this? Post by: DIGGA on June 22, 2009, 07:19:48 PM STIG READ THIS LINK IT TELLS YA EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
http://www.archive.org/stream/silvertokencoina00daltiala/silvertokencoina00daltiala_djvu.txt (http://www.archive.org/stream/silvertokencoina00daltiala/silvertokencoina00daltiala_djvu.txt) Title: Re: what`s the background on this? Post by: Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan ) on June 22, 2009, 07:27:01 PM Peter posted something about it the other day Stig,
http://www.detectingwales.com/index.php?topic=2495.0 (http://www.detectingwales.com/index.php?topic=2495.0) Title: Re: what`s the background on this? Post by: DIGGA on June 22, 2009, 07:36:15 PM STIG I GOT IT CHECK OUT THIS LINK ITS THE SAME ONE BUD NICE FIND BY THE WAY ;D ;D
http://www.napoleonicmedals.org/coins/brit11-8.htm (http://www.napoleonicmedals.org/coins/brit11-8.htm) Title: Re: what`s the background on this? Post by: Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan ) on June 22, 2009, 07:38:10 PM wowww, thats a nice one Digga, good going there,
Title: Re: what`s the background on this? Post by: DIGGA on June 22, 2009, 07:47:53 PM or this one from the british maratime museum
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=MEC1982 (http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=MEC1982) Title: Re: what`s the background on this? Post by: Stig(The) on June 22, 2009, 08:02:16 PM Nice one Jon ;D
Title: Re: what`s the background on this? Post by: Tafflaff (Rob) on June 22, 2009, 08:11:07 PM Well done stig , whats the odds on two silver bristol tokens fella , though yours is in much better condition than mine...lol .
Title: Re: what`s the background on this? Post by: The Doc on June 22, 2009, 08:41:41 PM It's a nice find stig. Not sure if I can add much, apart from this, which explains why silver tokens were produced in 1811-12:
http://www.tokensociety.org.uk/topics/silver19.shtml (http://www.tokensociety.org.uk/topics/silver19.shtml) Title: Re: what`s the background on this? Post by: ROMAN STEVE on June 22, 2009, 10:27:14 PM That is very nice stig ;D
Title: Re: what`s the background on this? Post by: Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan ) on June 23, 2009, 07:47:16 AM well , thats 3 with mine Rob
Title: Re: what`s the background on this? Post by: hedgehog on June 23, 2009, 07:57:25 AM Nice find Stig, silver tokens are hard to come by nice historical piece that !
Title: Re: what`s the background on this? Post by: Stig(The) on June 23, 2009, 12:59:29 PM Thanks for the help lads,very interesting,hopefully i`ll be finding more then on my land,i`ll keep you updated. ;D
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