Token, penny token issued by Professor Holloway, bronze, England, 1858

A poster for "Holloway's Pills and Ointments" bears the caption  "THOMAS / HOLLOWAY / The founder of the ROYAL HOLLOWAY COLLEGE and HOLLOWAY SANITORIUM the Original Proprietor of HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AD OINTMENTS....".

Holloway, Thomas

England, United Kingdom, Europe

Birmingham based medallist 1818-1901 who minted coins and tokens for primarily New Zealand clients as part of Allen and Moore in Birmingham England. Born in Birmingham, Joseph Moore was apprenticed at a young age to diesinker Thomas Halliday. He also trained under Samuel Lines, another diesinker and engraver. After completing his apprenticeship he began his own business as a buttonmaker, winning a prize at the 1851 London Exhibition for his work. While engaged in his apprenticeship and working as a buttonmaker, he studied in his own time to gain the skills of a medallist. He was a designer of medals principally, but first came to public attention when he created a 'model penny' in 1844. This penny was so popular with the public that the coin diesinker at the Royal Mint felt compelled 'to advertise the fact that [the pennies] were the result of private enterprise and not a government issue' (Forrer, 1909). For some time he was in a partnership, Allen and Moore, thought by some to be the best medallists of the later nineteenth century. Moore created some of the dies used by Heaton and Sons to produce coins and tokens. He is credited as the designer of the penny and halfpenny tokens issued by Professor Holloway (A660-A672) in 1857 and 1858. Sweeny argues that Holloway's tokens were produced in Heaton and Sons' Birmingham establishment, on the basis of cardboard impressions taken from dies bearing Holloway's head that were donated to The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery by The Mint, Birmingham. Moore died in 1892.

Moore, Joseph (medallist)

Birmingham, Birmingham borough, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Europe

89/99 Token, Penny, 'Holloways Pills and Ointment', pierced, bronze, issued by Thomas Holloway, England, minted by Joseph Moore Mint, Birmingham, England, 1958

Substitutes for money that move within a limited universe, usually not in general circulation, may be exchanged for particular goods or services, and are made from hard substances whose intrinsic value is always less than the stated value (Getty Institute, Art and Architecture Thesaurus, 2005).

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Penny token issued by Professor Holloway

Object No. 89/99

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