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| D&H Warwickshire Nos. 332-474 |
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| James Conder assigned Wilkinson's Tokens to Warwickshire
in his Arrangement of Provincial Tokens (1798), and every work since
has repeated the error. The tokens were made payable at Willey, Snedshill,
Bersham and Bradley. Perhaps Conder looked up Willey in a gazetteer and
found Willey in Warwickshire, which is a small agricultural village, but
not on the coalfield nor in the iron-working areas that became the "Black
Country." |
| The other Willey is in Shropshire; also a small village,
but only a mile from Brosely where Wilkinson had an iron foundry .The famous
Trial was launched from Willey Wharf. Snedshill is also in Shropshire,
being a part of Oakengates, in the same area. Bersham is a suburb of Wrexham,
Denbighshire, where Wilkinson had another foundry; and Bradley was a part
of Bilston in Staffordshire; his foundry there earned him the title of "Father
of the South Staffordshire Iron Industry." |
| Wilkinson's tokens are described in Commercial Coins
under Shropshire, where they are in company with those issued at the iron-works
of Coalbrookdale and Ketley. |
| Commercial Coins 1787-1804., pp. 201 |
