1831: Deney Briant

Object number: 2008.0039.0107

Details

Diameter: 40mm, thickness: 5mm

Front:

Token engraved with a border of cut marks and the stippled image of a man wearing chains. Inside the border runs the stippled text:

YOUR . ILL . FATED . BROTHER . BOUND . IN . SLAVERY .

On the inside of this border is the name:

. DENEY . . BRIANT .

Back:

Token engraved with stippled text on the reverse of a cartwheel twopence. On either side of the figure of Britannia runs the text:

7 Y
AGED XIX

Inside the border between the date 1797 and the word BRITANNIA are the words:

SEPR 8
1831 .. o ..

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