From the Regency Period, when necessity coinage flourished throughout the British Isles, this silver shilling token from Bristol was issued by William Sheppard, a self-described "bookseller, stationer, and vendor of patent medicines."
My usually quite competent Epson scanner basically folds when challenged by these lovely full-mirrored fields and frosty cameo devices.
Somersetshire, Bristol, 1811 Shilling, Dalton 9.
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