Token
Category
Coins and medals
Date
1792
Materials
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Quarry Bank, Cheshire
NT 1460310
Summary
A Kershaw's Rochdale copper half penny token, dated 1792. Obverse shows the arms of the clothworkers' company with a ram crest and legend 'Rochdale half penny 1792'. Reverse shows a weaver seated at a hand loom, legend 'Payable at the warehouse of John Kershaw, produced for John Kershaw, mercer and draper.