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• Paul Withers also announced this new book on early trading tokens. Thanks! -Editor

  SEVENTEENTH CENTURY TRADING TOKENS OF SURREY AND SOUTHWARK
  by Tim Everson

  Published by and available only from www.galata.co.uk, 2015. 132pp, A4, glossy laminated card covers. Price £37 +£3 p+p to UK addresses. Almost all of the 1000 tokens are illustrated in colour including a possible three halfpence, pennies, square, heart and octagonal shaped pieces, those in Pewter and forgeries. Thirty nine completely new pieces are listed for the first time.

  The whole series has been renumbered and there is a concordance with Williamson/Dickinson. The book is completed with indexes of designs/devices, signs, names, trades, and a bibliography.

  A unique feature of the book is that it includes a photograph of Francis Holden, one of the issuers of a token listed in the book. Impossible ? No, this statement is quite true !

  More details, including details of postage to the USA and other overseas destinations can be obtained from www.galata.co.uk

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• http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n19a10.html

Date published

• 2015-05-10

Volume

• 18

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