GREAT BRITAIN. Tokens of the Industrial Revolution: Foreign Silver Coins Countermarked for Use in Great Britain c. 1787-1828 by Harrington E. Manville, published by Spink & Son Ltd in 2001, is an important and highly specialised study of one of the most fascinating byways of British numismatics, examining the foreign silver coins countermarked for circulation in Great Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Issued as a British Numismatic Society special publication, this substantial hardcover volume offers a focused treatment of a series closely connected with the monetary pressures and improvisations of the Industrial Revolution, illuminating the practical reuse of overseas coinage in the British economy at a moment of commercial expansion and coin shortage. A valuable reference for collectors, researchers, and students of British token and countermark series, it remains an essential work on a complex and historically significant field.

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