I bought this one recently - I believe they were made by the Bank of England and used as normal/circulation currency

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The English ones were made by the Bank of England whereas the Irish ones were minted by the Bank of Ireland I believe.

A nice example!

Thanks for that - I should have researched it better. I assumed they were part of the same group of Bank tokens

Loads of these silver tokens were made around the time of the Napoleonic Wars as there was a shortage of Government silver due to the need to pay troops that were fighting napoleon over on the continent. There were also lots (I think about 70 places) of varietes of silver conders produced 1811-13 which were allegedly all produced by a Henry Morgan. No silver conders were produced for any other years.

Bought another one

Ireland 1805 Bank Token 10 pence
has a leaf between the D and E of Dei
Small Flan variety s6617;KM Tn3
Sold at baldwins "Boyd" sale 26/9/2005

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