Copper halfpenny token for Daniel Boulter’s ‘Exhibition of natural and artificial curiosities’, Yarmouth, Norfolk, 1796.

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Yarmouth : Joseph, Daniel and John Boulter, 1796. Æ halfpenny, diameter 29.8 mm. Obverse: A female seated holding a scroll inscribed BOULTER S EXHIBITION OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL CURIOSITIES. In ex. YARMOUTH in a straight line. Reverse: Three figures symbolising Asia, Africa and America presenting various curiosities to Britannia, who is recording them in a book. Around the perimeter UNDIQUAQUE COLLIGITUR. In ex. 1796. Edge PUBLISHED BY JOS. DANL. JNO. BOULTER. A choice, uncirculated example. This privately issued halfpenny was issued by Daniel Boulter (1740-1802), a merchant and the developer of Boulter s Exhibition of Natural and Artificial Curiosities, jointly with his brothers Joseph Boulter (1743-1819), cook, grocer, tallow chandler, and John Boulter (1745-1816), ship s captain. The Boulters were a Quaker family from the village of Worstead in Norfolk. In 1764 Daniel Boulter had opened his first shop in Yarmouth, selling silverware, toys, books and prints. He moved to larger premises at 19, Market Place, in 1777, and in August 1778 opened his own museum in the same building. Boulter s Exhibition of Natural and Artificial Curiosities was a collection of several thousand objects, all on display to the fee-paying public. A catalogue of Boulter s collection published in London around 1794 ( Museum Boulterianum. A catalogue of the curious and valuable collection of natural and artificial curiosities in the extensive museum of Daniel Boulter, Yarmouth ) describes natural hist

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