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Description: | Token, copper, 45mm diameter. Birmingham workhouse three pence token, 1813. (D Warwks 34). Issuer Overseers of the Poor, Birmingham Workhouse, 1813, 3d. Obverse View of Birmingham Workhouse, �Birmingham three pence 1813�. Reverse Arms of the City of Birmingham: �One pound note for 80 tokens payable at the workhouse�. Notes This is the heaviest copper coin ever issued for circulation in Britain. The Overseers also intended to issue a 6d piece but changed their minds because it weighed over five ounces. A small number were in fact minted but not enough to count as a true commercial coin. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | tokens | Temporal: | 1813 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Willetts (artist) | Identifier: | 1977-381/143 | Go to resource |
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