Catalogue
Tokens, Passes and Checks
Love tokens, trade and advertising tokens, admission passes and checks. Separate from reckoning jetons, lead tokens and tax seals.
Published entries
6
Individual types and documented families
With photographs
100%
6 with a credited real-object photo
Dated span
1780 – 1904
6 entries with their own date
Verified or well documented
0
Highest two confidence levels
Catalogue entries (6)
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Love token — FEARWELL DEAR SISTER / WILLIAM ADAMS 1834
1834 (inscribed; probable manufacture)
Love token made from smoothed and stippled 1797 penny. The museum transcribes the inscriptions as FEARWELL / DEAR / SISTER on one face, and an anchor surrounded by WILLIAM ADAMS 1834 on the other. The museum dates the token to 1834 and describes manufacture in that year as probable. Its previous identification as Au…
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Museums Victoria
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Love token engraved ANN PARKIN 1780
1780 (inscribed)
A round copper love token (30 mm) engraved on reverse of George III halfpenny. The obverse features a draped and laureate bust of the King facing right; around, GEORGIVS III REX. The reverse of the coin has been removed and engraved ANN / PARKIN / 1780 among leaves and lines The inscribed date is recorded separatel…
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Museums Victoria
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Memorial love token engraved J K DIED / JULY 19 1847
1847 (inscribed); circa 1805 (host coin)
A British halfpenny struck in about 1805 worn and smoothed, the obverse has been inscribed, J K / DIED and the reverse has been inscribed, JULY 19 / 1847. Holed for wearing - wear around the hole suggests it was worn for some time. The inscribed date is recorded separately from the date of the underlying coin. The m…
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Token — Theatre admission token, London, ca.1900
ca.1900
White metal circular token for admission to the Pit, Palace Theatre, Derby, ca.1900. Circular white metal token with central square hole for issue from a ticket machine. Engraved recto 'PALACE-DERBY-PIT'. Blank verso. The museum record gives material recorded as white metal; place associated: London; maker recorded:…
Partial type record
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Token, James, C., London, 1795
1795
Circular copper token in the halfpenny size with milled circumference, issued as advertising and currency for Pidcock's Exhibition at Exeter Change. Antelope recto, standing, inscribed around: PIDCOCK'S EXHIBITION ALIVE 1795; ostrich verso, inscribed around: EXETER CHANGE STRAND LONDON, and below the figure: 'JAMES'…
Partial type record
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Token, London, 1904
1904
Circular ivory token, issued to S.A.R. Conover as a press pass for the Empire Theatre, inscribed with the name of the theatre, the manager, the date and a crown symbol. The museum record gives material recorded as ivory, ink; measurements Height 3.0 cm; Width 4.7 cm; place associated: London.
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Dated entries by century
- 18th century2
- 19th century3
- 20th century1
Only the 6 entries carrying their own date to within about 150 years are counted, by the earliest year given. These are catalogue holdings, not production totals.
Museum specimen and identification evidence
Common questions about tokens, passes and checks
- How many tokens, passes and checks entries are published, and do they have photographs?
- 6 entries are published in this section; 6 of them carry at least one credited photograph of a real object, with its source and stated rights.
- What period do the tokens, passes and checks entries cover?
- 6 entries carry their own date to within about a century and a half; they range from 1780 to 1904. Broader museum date ranges are kept exactly as recorded and are left out of this span.
- Does Orbis value or grade tokens, passes and checks?
- No. Orbis documents and identifies object types with cited sources. It does not grade condition, estimate prices or sell objects.