Victorian Hotel token

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I have not identified this token with the references available to me. Florence Hotel / Bowling Green / 2 D (penny/pence) J.D.C.

Cholla James

 With it being 2d it is a pre-decimal 2 pence token, 

and so most likely to be from UK hopefully. 

 A few counties have a place named Bowling Green … 

Cornwall, Hampshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire, and so on … 

 Then to find one that in Victorian times had a Florence Hotel in it - 

and also what the J D C means … 

Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins

 With it being 2d it is a pre-decimal 2 pence token, 

and so most likely to be from UK hopefully. 

 A few counties have a place named Bowling Green … 

Cornwall, Hampshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire, and so on … 

 Then to find one that in Victorian times had a Florence Hotel in it - 

and also what the J D C means … 

 

Cornwall -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callington  

Cornwall - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Green,_Cornwall 

Cornwall - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Green_is_a_hamlet,the_civil_parish_of_Treverbyn  

 

Hampshire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennington,_Hampshire 

Shropshire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peplow 

Worcestershire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Green,_Worcestershire 

Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins

 There is also a Bowling Green in Lancashire 

and it also issued a token with that name on 

 

 

 but it was not Florence Hotel name. 

Lancashire > Orrell > Rose & Crown 

http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/lancashire/orrell_rosecrown.html#google_vignette 

Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins

 Lastly, another in Lancashire 

 

 

 an auction lot of 16 tokens.  

Florence Hotel, Blackburn [Lancashire] - 2d 

Bowling Green, Handels Arms, Eccleshill [near Darwen, Lancashire]

 but both those are uniface.  Shame not on the same token. 

Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins

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