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Issuer: Private (Scorrier House) Cornwall, Great Britain.
Value: 1 Penny (1/240)
Grade: F12
Year: 1812
Metal: Copper
Weight: 18.4 g.
Diameter: 33.5 mm
Orientation: Coin alignment ↑↓
References: Withers# 687
Obverse:
View of a mill
Lettering:
PAYABLE AT SCORRIER HOUSE
ONE POUND
FOR
240 TOKENS
1812
Reverse:
Arms of the Prince of Wales
Lettering:
CORNISH PENNY
ICH DIEN
Edge:
Central angled grain
Comments:
Scorrier House, located near the village of Scorrier, Cornwall, is a country house and the seat of the Williams family. During a national currency shortage in the early 19th century, John Williams III (1753–1841) took the initiative to pay his workers in his own Cornish currency, struck in copper from his own mines.
Référence : Withers# 687
Source : https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1...
Collection : English, Scottish & Irish, Conder Tokens, Commonwealth & Colonial Tokens