Owner Comments:
Gloucestershire Badminton DH #47
Obverse: A wheatsheaf with A below * RELIEF * AGAINST * MONOPOLY * *
Reverse: A pair of scales, 3 1/2 lb between the pans 1s. WORTH OF BREAD 1795 . 96 * GOOD LORD DELIVER US *
Edge: Plain
Diesinker: Thomas Willets
Manufacturer: Peter Kempson
Issuer: John Jelly and David Arnot
Weight: 9.41g
Rarity: Scarce
Mr. Jelly was an attorney and Mr. Arnot was a schoolmaster in Bath. Both were avid collectors of tradesmen tokens and both issued tokens for their own businesses. Mr. Jelly for the Bath Botanical Gardens and Mr. Arnot for the Spa at Holt in Wiltshire.
The Badminton tokens were struck to perpetuate the memory of Henry, 5th Duke of Beaufort (1744-1803) during the corn crisis at the end of the 18th century. The series of tokens consists of seven dies freely mulled together to produce 36 different tokens, each of which were produced in limited numbers.
About 150 tokens struck.
Atkins: Not Local 79
Bt. Malcolm Taylor