Watch List notes:

Warwickshire 1. Birmingham. The Work House Overseers of the Poor. Copper halfcrown. 35 mm. A female seated to the right giving alms to a man with a cane and a young boy; a small child by her side / B W H cypher, 1788 above; TWO SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE around. Graded PCGS MS63BN. Photographed through plastic.Old collector tag (20.1.54 "Good EF").D&H note "common" but this piece in particularly uncommon condition. Samuel considers the issue to be somewhat cynical; "...the humiliating allegorical representation of what he had undergone to acquire it..."