The trade token of Dublin, Henry Bollardt, dated 1654

The Trade Token of Henry Bollardt, Apothecary (Dublin, 1654)

Dublin in the 1650’s Dublin City in the 1650’s was a very different place to that we all know and love today. It was a walled city – with heavily fortified gates at intervals along its perimeter. In 1649, with a Royalist army encamped in the grassy expanse surrounding Rathmines Castle, the Parliamentary commander of…

17th century Irish tradesmens' tokens - Dublin, Lazey Hill, Nic[holas] Delone, Penny

O’Brien Coin Guide: 17th C Tradesmens’ Tokens of Dublin

Although manufactured and used over 350 years ago, many of these tokens were issued with pretty much the same form of English as we use nowadays, with a few notable exceptions to their alphabet and spelling, e.g. The letter “U” is always represented by the letter “V”, e.g. DVBLIN There was no letter “J” in…

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The Trade Token of Henry Bollardt, Apothecary (Dublin, 1654)

O’Brien Coin Guide: 17th C Tradesmens’ Tokens of Dublin