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Sat 14 July (BC)
VICTORIA DEI GRATIA COIN
A proclamation appears in the Gazette of Friday night respecting the new coinage.
The only novelty is the appearance of a new gold coin of the value of five pounds.
The weight of the coin is to be twenty five pennyweights, sixteen grains, and thirty-
seven hundredth parts of a grain troy weight of solid gold. Each piece shall have for
the obverse impression Her Majesty’s effigy, with the inscription “Victoria Dei
Gratia,” and the date of the year; and for the reverse the ensigns armorial of the
United Kingdom, contained in a plain shield, surmounted by the Royal crown, and
enriched with a laurel wreath with the inscription “Britanniarum Regina Fid. Def.,”
having the united rose, thistle, and the shamrock, placed under the shield, and upon
the edge of the piece the words “Decus et Tutamen,” and the words “Anno Regni,”
and the year of Her Majesty’s reign.

REDUCED FARES
INSIDE 10s.—OUTSIDE 6s.
WILLIAM’S COACH OFFICE,
No. 7, KING-STREET, READING.
The public are respectfully informed that the Early Coach to LONDON leaves the
above Office
On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, & FRIDAY Mornings, at half-past Five
o’Clock
Through Oakingham, Bracknell, and Sunninghill; and returns from the Black Lion
Water-lane, Fleet-street, London, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays,
at half-past Twelve, and Hatchett’s New White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly, at One
o’clock.
The Nine o’Clock Coach to London,
Every Morning (Sunday excepted).
Through Oakingham, Binfield, Bracknell, Warfield, Winkfield Church, and (by
permission) Windsor Great Park; returns from the Black Lion, Water-lane, every
Morning at half-past Nine, and Hatchett’s Piccadilly, at Ten o’clock.
A very superior Fast Coach to London
Every Morning (Sunday Excepted), at ¼ before 12 o’clock
Through Oakingham, Bracknell and Sunninghill; and returns from the Black Lion,
Water-lane, Fleet-street, London, daily at Three, and Hatchett’s New White Horse
Cellar, Piccadilly, at half-past Three precisely.
Samuel Williams, Sen)
AND Samuel Williams, Jun) Proprietors
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Reading, July 2 , 1838

Sat 11th Aug (BC)
HONE’S GENERAL COACH
AND
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY OFFICE
KING STREET, READING
The Public are respectfully informed that the following coaches will leave the above
office until further notice:--
RAILWAY COACHES to the Maidenhead Station
MORNING AFTERNOON
Seven o’clock Three o’clock

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