Gateshead (near Newcastle). Copper boundary token. 14.89 gm. 32 mm. 1849. A castle on a shield with a goat's head above; BOROUGH OF GATESHEAD BOUNDARY TOKEN around / PERAMBULATION 24TH MAY 1849 around; within a beaded circle GEOE HAWKS ESQR MAYOR in two lines followed by eight lines of names of other participants. Withers Token Book 3: 2697. Davis and Waters p. 302:22. FDC, proof; fine die polishing marks show up under magnification; there is a slight disturbance to the right of the shield. (The reverse approaches flawlessness. Perhaps the obverse was struck from a die used for an earlier "walk about" with a different list of participants.)

Ex Baldwin's, with envelope.

These "perambulations" were "walk abouts" carried out by a group of town leaders to inspect and demarcate land boundaries, something more necessary in an age before formal surveys using modern instruments for legal files.