Brass token of Thomas Chambers
HC.J.13.X.15
Brass token of Thomas Chambers. 1871-4.
Such tokens were common in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when there was a scarcity of legal currency in small denominations. They were often used as advertising. Parliament prohibited their production (27 July 1817) from 1 January 1818.
The obverse of this example reads:
Thomas Chambers / Dentist / 18 / Bark Street / Bolton /
and the reverse:
All branches / of Surgical and / Mechanical / Dentistry / Teeth Extracted / Without Pain / Wise Maker Birm[ingham] /
1871-74
It is believed that Chambers died in 1877 and he did not register under Section Eleven of the Dentists' Act (1878)
Nineteenth century, late
