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Description: | Token, copper, 28mm diameter. Leeds halfpenny, 1793. (DH Yorks 31). Issuer Harry Brownbill, silversmith, 1793, �d. Obverse Bishop Blaze and a wool comb: �Success to the Yorkshire woollen manufactory�. Reverse Leeds cloth hall: �Leeds halfpenny 1793�. Notes This is a particularly fine token with excellent detail. The building is the Mixed-cloth Hall built in 1758. With some 1,800 cloth stands and its many windows for good lighting, the hall was a notable building. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | tokens | Temporal: | 1793 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Droz, Jean Pierre (artist) | Identifier: | 1977-381/15 | Go to resource |
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