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.