Museum of Oxford
Free city history museum in a Victorian town hall, tracing everyday life from prehistory to today.
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This guide to the Museum of Oxford, in the Town Hall on St Aldate's, begins with a single copper farthing struck for the city in the sixteen fifties, when the Civil War had left England short of small change. It follows the royal engraver who cut its die, the citizens who paid for it, and the Oxford shopkeepers, tavern keepers and tennis court keepers who issued money of their own. Best heard beside the cases of seventeenth-century tokens.
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