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blowing a trumpet
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Rev: A crown between branches of laurel
Obv: View of the Workhouse
Middlesex D&H 394 Newgate Books blowing a trumpetObv: View of the prison, NEWGATE above, MDCCXCIV in exergue. Rev: KING AND CONSTITION on banners, crown above, 1794 below. Edge: CURRENT EVERYWHERE. Uncirculated and Choice brown. There was no prison more infamous and forbidding than Newgate Prison throughout Londons long history. In reading R. C. Bells notes on D&H 391, which has the same obverse die as this token, a vivid picture is painted of the prison. You can picture the public executions, which
