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Middlesex Skidmore's Churches and Gates DH #658
Obverse: A view of Moorgate MOORGATE. Ex: JACOBS in small letters and 1796. Below
Reverse: The Skidmore cypher - PSCO in script, DEDICATED . TO . COLLECTORS . OF . MEDALS. & COINS . surrounding
Edge: Plain
Diesinker: Benjamin Jacobs
Manufacturer: Paul Skidmore
Weight: 10.19g
Rarity: Common
Moorgate was one of the northern gates of the City of London and the last gate to be built. It was located between Bishopsgate and Cripplegate. Moorgate was pulled down in 1762.
The family business of the token manufacturer Peter Skidmore was an iron foundry at 15 Coppice Row in Clerkenwell with a shop at No. 123, High Holborn. Skidmore realised that there was a market for tokens as the genuine tradesmen's pieces of the time were very keenly collected as they were issued. As well as making genuine tradesmens' tokens to order, he also made pennies and halfpennies for sale to collectors of the time - especially series of Buildings Tokens for London.
One of a set of pieces depicting one of the eleven gates of London.
Bt. Merfyn Williams