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1849: Charles Betts

Object number: 2008.0039.0254

1849: Charles Betts

Object number: 2008.0039.0254

Diameter: 36mm, thickness: 3mm

Front:

Token with a stippled zigzag border, and two concentric circles of stippled text around the date in the middle:

AGED 24 : 12 . MONTHS X 
CITY : GOAL X
1849

Back:

Token with a stippled zigzag border and the central image of a cup with two crossed pipes below it. Around the image runs the stippled text:

CHARLES : BETTS X

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Simon Barnard

15th Jan 2015

Hiya, this token can be attributed to Charles Betts, an English sheep thief who served 12 months in 1849. See: Norfolk News, 24 March 1849 and Bury and Norwich Post, 28 March 1849.

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