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Description: | The University's collection of communion tokens contains some 12,000 pieces, mainly from Scotland, but also from the rest of the world. It is thought to be the largest collection of Communion Tokens in the UK and was mainly collected during the early part of the 20th century. The collection can be broken down further into collectors: The Milne collection; this collection was donated to the University by Rev. A. A. Milne in the 1920s and numbers approximately 5720 tokens. The St Mary’s collection; the St Mary’s collection contains an estimated 2100 tokens collected by the Divinity Faculty of the University of St Andrews and centres on the parishes in and around St Andrews. The Taylor Collection; acquired in the early part of the 20th century and containing around 3314 pieces. The Shearer Collection, obtained by the University in 1966, and containing 439 tokens. | Subjects: | Numismatics Communion Token | Source: | University of St Andrews | Address: | KY16 9AJ | Creator: | MILNE, A.A. | Contributor: | University of St Andrews | Identifier: | HC:C74 | Language: | en-GB | Relation: | MC:C48 |
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