½ Penny Cambridgeshire - Industry has its sure reward
Features
| Issuer |
United Kingdom
 |
|---|---|
| Type | Emergency coinage › Merchant tokens |
| Year | 1793 |
| Value | ½ Penny (1⁄480) |
| Currency | Pound sterling (1158-1971) |
| Composition | Miedź |
| Weight | 8.56 g |
| Diameter | 28 mm |
| Thickness | 1.5 mm |
| Shape | Okrągły |
| Technique | Frezowana |
| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Demonetized | 15 October 1831 |
| Number | N# 80478 |
| References | DH# 15 Richard Dalton, Samuel H. Hamer; 1918. The Provincial Token-Coinage of the 18th Century. Davisson's Ltd., London, United Kingdom. |
Obverse
Słomiany ul ustawiony na drewnianej tacy i stojący na gładkim podłożu z 34 pszczołami rojącymi się wokół. Napis dookoła, mała gwiazdka jako ogranicznik poniżej, obramowanie z koralików
Script: łaciński
Lettering: INDUSTRY HAS IT'S SURE REWARD.
Engraver: Thomas Wyon the Younger
Reverse
Bocian zwrócony w prawo z legendą wokół i datą poniżej.
Script: łaciński
Lettering:
PROMISSORY HALFPENNY
1793
Engraver: Thomas Wyon the Younger
Edge
Ukośnie zaokrąglone \ \ \
Uwaga: istnieją odmiany krawędzi
Mint
Kempson & Son, Birmingham, United Kingdom (1796-1825)Comments
(en)
The recurring theme of the industrious hive: Legends help to understand this symbol of the hive: this face work, industriousness and sense of savings, the co-operation of all individuals for common prosperity. Anthropomorphic qualities already put forward for centuries, and which will triumph in the nineteenth century when, for example, almost all the European savings banks adopt the hive and bees as symbols of their business. On an iconographic level, note that the hive shown here is a model taken almost without change by dozens of tokens issuers in very different regions of the UK. There is also the model of a small hive overcoming business figure; and rarer is a beehive surrounded by various flowers and plants.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | Frequency | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| 1793 | (en) DH#15 - PAYABLE IN LONDON and engrailed | 13% | |||||||||||||
| 1793 | (en) DH#15a - milled edge | 88% | |||||||||||||
| 1793 | (en) DH#15b - plain edge | 0% | |||||||||||||
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