. Trade tokens issued in the seventeenth century in England, Wales, and Ireland. Surrey. Sussex Number of Tokens issued ...... 183 Number of Places issuing Tokens 59 Town Pieces issued at Midhurst and Rye. Sub-Editor and Collaborateur: Fredk. E. Sawyer, Esq., , 3, Buckingham Place, Brighton. Sttasey. The Sussex tokens are a series which possess considerable interestand importance. In appearance they present no very special feature ;most are of the ordinary shape, two only being heart-shaped and oneoctagonal. In devices but few present arms or crests of privateindividuals, and very many t
. Trade tokens issued in the seventeenth century in England, Wales, and Ireland. Surrey. Sussex Number of Tokens issued ...... 183 Number of Places issuing Tokens 59 Town Pieces issued at Midhurst and Rye. Sub-Editor and Collaborateur: Fredk. E. Sawyer, Esq., , 3, Buckingham Place, Brighton. Sttasey. The Sussex tokens are a series which possess considerable interestand importance. In appearance they present no very special feature ;most are of the ordinary shape, two only being heart-shaped and oneoctagonal. In devices but few present arms or crests of privateindividuals, and very many the ordinary trade arms and signs. Speak-ing types occur in tokens of Horsham, Uckneld and Chichester, inwhich a heart, a swan, and a hart are the punning devices. In some instances the spelling of the place-name is in a localphonetic form, as at Arundell, and by this we are enabled to verifychange in village pronunciation. Many of the tokens were issuedfrom places which are now small and insignificant villages • but inone noticeable instance, that of Brighton, the relative
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