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1973.11.11

ID Number: 1973.11.11
Category: Communication Artifacts
Sub-category: exchange medium
Item Name: coin
Date: 1826
Materials: metal, silver
Description: silver; milled edge; obverse: bare head; Georgius IV Dei Gratia/1826
reverse: crowned shield; Britanniarum Rex FID:DEF:
History: This coin shows the head with the penny, half penny etc. with like copy, but has crowned shields half crown. Diameter of coin is same as illustration of half crown This item and others from Windsor Public Library (WPL) were found when the library relocated from Carnegie hall to its new Main library on Ouellette in 1973. Probably had been accumulated by the Essex Historical Society.
Place made: England
Collection Name: Museum Windsor
Subject (Fre): Y

Subjects

British / Britannique subject

Royalty subject

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