One peculiarity connected with the Pinxton China Works remains to be noticed: it is the issuing of china tokens, _i.e._, tokens representing different values of money, made of china, and payable as money among the workpeople and others, including shopkeepers. These were issued in a time of difficulty, so that they were only temporary conveniences, and thus they possess great interest. They were of two distinct kinds. The general form was a circular disc of white china, thicker in the middle than at the edges--in fact, exactly of the form of a common magnifying glass--and bore on the obverse a figure of 5 in the centre, and the words, “_Let the Bearer have in goods five shillings_,” in four lines across. On the reverse a similar figure 5 and the words, “_which place to account with John Coke, Pinxton. Decr. 24th, 1801_,” in five lines across. The writing is in blue, and the tokens are well glazed. They were issued of various values, as 10_s._, 7_s._ 6_d._, 5_s._, 3_s._ 6_d._, 1_s._ 6_d._, and 1_s._ respectively. The one here engraved belongs to W. S. Coke, Esq., of Brookhill, and I am indebted for it to his nephew Capt. J. Talbot Coke. Others bore, as shown on the next engraving, simply the figure of value, gilt or painted on an oval disc. These tokens were used as promissory notes, and when returned to the works by their holders their value in money was given for them, and they were broken up and destroyed. They were payable in and around Pinxton, on one side as far as Sutton, but their payment did not extend to Mansfield. They were called “Mr. Coke’s coin,” or “Chainé money” (china money), in the provincialism of the locality.[35] [Illustration: _Let the Bearer have_ 5 _in goods five shillings_ _which place to account with_ 5 _John Coke Pinxton Dec^r 24^{th} 1801._ Fig. 116.] [Illustration: 7_s._ 5_s._ Figs. 117 & 118.] It is pleasant to see how the memory of the old china works at Pinxton is cherished by its inhabitants of the present day, among whom some of the people who worked there are still, at a ripe old age, living. One of these, in her eighty-fifth year, who began to work at the factory when but a child of some eleven years of age (at that time named Elizabeth Smith), and became ultimately the chief burnisher of the works, was, when I saw her a few years back, in full possession of all her faculties, and delighted in describing, with marvellous accuracy, all the processes employed. To her wonderful memory, and to that of others, as well as to documents and long personal research, I owe the information which I, in 1868, for the first time, gave in the _Art-Journal_, and now repeat, in regard to this interesting manufactory. WIRKSWORTH.