1849: Charles Betts
Object number: 2008.0039.0254
1849: Charles Betts
Object number: 2008.0039.0254
Details
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.