Hampshire 56, Portsmouth (Dalton & Hamer, page 46)
Denomination: halfpenny, scarcity: Common
56. O: IOHN HOWARD . F.R.S. PHILANTROPIST. The front edge of coat is on a line
with the second limb of the N of "IOHN." (Same as No. 53.)
R: Female standing, as No. 25.
E: PAYABLE IN LONDON. The remainder engrailed.
The writer of the "Bazaar Notes" says Thomas Sharp was a Mercer, and T.Chaldecott
a Silversmith and Cutler. John Howard, F.R.S. was born at Hackney, 2nd September
1726. His name will always be connected with improvements in prisons. He died of
fever, January 20th, 1790.
No. 56, common.
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