1 Penny - Ironbridge Gorge Museum Token (convex image) 1987 front 1 Penny - Ironbridge Gorge Museum Token (convex image) 1987 back
1 Penny - Ironbridge Gorge Museum Token (convex image) 1987 photo
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1 Penny - Ironbridge Gorge Museum Token convex image

1987 year
Bronze 9.7 g 30.4 mm
Description
Location
United Kingdom (United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies)
Type
Medals › Souvenir medallions
Year
1987
Value
1 Penny (1⁄240)
Composition
Bronze
Weight
9.7 g
Diameter
30.4 mm
Thickness
1.9 mm
Shape
Round
Technique
Milled
Orientation
Medal alignment ↑↑
Updated
2024-11-14
References
Numista
N#96702
Rarity index
62%

Reverse

Prancing horse beneath iron bridge, legend around.

Script: Latin

Lettering: IRONBRIDGE GORGE MUSEUM TOKEN

Edge

Plain

Comment

Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is an industrial heritage organisation which runs ten museums and manages 35 historic sites within the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire, England, widely considered as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. Wikipedia

 These tokens have been based upon the old UK coinage and can be used to purchase items in the museum shops to give the person and experience of living in the Victorian era.

These tokens come in two types. The first ones have a filled in raised Britannia more like the genuine coinage of the the period ,which has a H mint mark for Heaton Mint in Birmingham, England(as Pictured above) and the flat outline Britannia which has no mint mark.

These tokens are available from the Victorian Lloyd's Bank on site in exchange for current British sterling (GBP).
40 pence (0.0) GBP = 1 Penny Token