1 Farthing Lanarkshire - Glasgow / A. Hamilton

Features

Issuer	United Kingdom
Type	Emergency coinage › Merchant tokens
Year	1791
Value	1 Farthing (1⁄960)
Currency	Pound sterling (1158-1971)
Composition	Miedź
Weight	4.7 g
Diameter	23.7 mm
Thickness	1.4 mm
Shape	Okrągły
Technique	Frezowana
Orientation	Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized	15 October 1831
Number	N# 158465
References	DH# 33 Richard Dalton, Samuel H. Hamer; 1918. The Provincial Token-Coinage of the 18th Century. Davisson's Ltd., London, United Kingdom. , Batty# 1330 David Thornbory Batty. Batty's Catalogue of the Copper Coinage of Great Britain, Ireland, British Isles and Colonies. Manchester, United Kingdom (4 volumes).

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Obverse

(en) The arms of Glasgow (A tree with a bird perched on the top, a bell hanging from the boughs, and a fish with a loop through its snout at the base of the trunk) with legend around.

Script: łaciński

Lettering: GLASGOW FARTHING PAYABLE AT

Reverse

(en) The arms of Edinburgh (St Andrew holding cross with small stones at his feet). Legend around, date in exergue.

Script: łaciński

Lettering:
ALEXR. HAMILTONS SNUFF SHOP ·
1791

Edge

Zwykły Automatically translated

Comments

(en) Alexander Hamilton was a tobacconist and dealer in snuff, with a business at 152 Stockwell Street, Glasgow.
Several obverse & reverse varieties exist (DH#31-7; Atkins~25-7). Listed in Dalton & Hamer as 'RR- RARE'.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1791

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