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From Commercial
Coins 1787-1804 - R.C.
Bell:
"John Harvey appears
to have been the Mayor of Norwich in the year of the striking
of the token, and was also a partner in the firm of Harvey
and Hudson, bankers, of Norwich. He was the commanding officer
of the Norwich Volunteer Cavalry Corps, and his portrait,
painted by Opie, is in the collection on the walls of St.
Andrew's Hall. Harvey had a splendid seat at Thorpe Lodge,
near Norwich, and some years after the issue of the token,
over two thousand weavers in the city subscribed to present
a piece of plate to him to show their esteem. He seems to
have been a 'throwster' by trade".
"When the city was
governed by a Bailiff, the Seal only bore the device of a
Castle with a watchman at the entrance. Edward III granted
the Lion to the city, and a new Seal bearing this addition
was cut; sometimes being used singly, and at others as a
reverse to the old Seal, but when Norwich was incorporated
the old Seals were destroyed and a new Seal was adopted with
the Castle and Lion as an obverse."
This example has
outstanding luster and color.
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