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CITY-GATE, Norwich Halfpenny 1792
Not that old, but it matches the category.  This is a Norwich Halfpenny token from 1792.  OBVERSE:  The Armorial bearings of the City of Norwich. (A castle triple-towered, in base a lion passant gardant.) 

Legend: MAY NORWICH FLOURISH. PRO BONO PUBLICO 

Reverse - Arms: (Gules, on a bend between six crosses crosslets fitchée argent, an escutcheon or, charged with a demi-lion [a lion on the token], rampant pierced through the mouth with an arrow, within a double tressure flory, counter-flory gules.) [The tressure is not so shown, and the tincture would be impossible to engrave at this minute scale] of the Howard Family — the Duke of Norfolk's. Behind the shield are two truncheons or Marshal's staves, in saltire or, enamelled at each end sable. [This tincture is omitted on the token.] 
Legend: NORFOLK AND NORWICH HALFPENNY. 1792 

Edge: PAYABLE AT N. BOLINGBROKES HABERDASHER &C NORWICH .X.
Keywords: Norwich norwood halfpenny 1792 pro bono publico

CITY-GATE, Norwich Halfpenny 1792

Not that old, but it matches the category. This is a Norwich Halfpenny token from 1792. OBVERSE: The Armorial bearings of the City of Norwich. (A castle triple-towered, in base a lion passant gardant.)

Legend: MAY NORWICH FLOURISH. PRO BONO PUBLICO

Reverse - Arms: (Gules, on a bend between six crosses crosslets fitchée argent, an escutcheon or, charged with a demi-lion [a lion on the token], rampant pierced through the mouth with an arrow, within a double tressure flory, counter-flory gules.) [The tressure is not so shown, and the tincture would be impossible to engrave at this minute scale] of the Howard Family — the Duke of Norfolk's. Behind the shield are two truncheons or Marshal's staves, in saltire or, enamelled at each end sable. [This tincture is omitted on the token.]
Legend: NORFOLK AND NORWICH HALFPENNY. 1792

Edge: PAYABLE AT N. BOLINGBROKES HABERDASHER &C NORWICH .X.

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Album name:Aarmale / Monumental Coins - Campgates and Other Architecture
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