On Thursday, Apr 24, 2003, at 15:30 Europe/London, roger gosling wrote:
> In the coat of arms for the district of Amberg-Sulzbach in Bavaria,
> Germany, a set of mining tools
> is depicted.
> See http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amberg-Sulzbach
>
> I am wondering about historic uses in coats of arms. How many other
> instances of mining
> connections are there in coats of arms?
>
> Roger
>
>
The 1789 'Cronebane 1/2d' token has a coat of arms on its reverse
depicting mining tools and a powder horn with a stows above. The MHTI
have adopted it as their logo and a fine example together with a short
history may be seen on their web site.
In addition there is a rather poor example on offer on the Ebay web
site.
Pete Challis
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