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Country: London, Middlesex - Great Britain
Type: Private Tokens, (1798-1816)
Year: 1811
Value: 1/2 Penny = 1/24 Shilling (1/480 LSD)
Grade: XF
Composition: Copper
Weight: 9.5 g.
Diameter: 30.4 mm
Shape: Round
Orientation: Coin alignment ↑↓
References: Withers# 845a (R3)
Obverse:
Legend on fourteen lines in centre and round periphery
Lettering:
THOMAS WOOD. BROKER, AUCTIONEER & GENERAL AGENT.
SALES OF ESTATES, HOUSES, MANUFACTURED GOODS,
AND MISCELLANEOUS PROPERTY,
SPEEDILY EFFECTED WITHOUT RISK.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS EVERY DAY AT 12.
PRIVATE ORDERS FOR ALL KINDS OF GOODS
PUNCTUALLY EXECUTED.
Reverse:
A view of a Georgian building (presumably his premises) with a sign outside
Lettering:
PAYABLE AT THE OLD STOCK EXCHANGE IN BANK NOTES
NEW AUCTION MART
ESTABLISHED 1811
HALFPENNY
Edge:
Central diagonal milling \ \ \ \
Comments:
Extremely rare Thomas Wood’s London (Middlesex) copper halfpenny token dated 1811.
Listed in Withers' "British Copper Tokens 1811-1820" as "RRR - EXTREMELY RARE". Thomas Wood was an auctioneer with business rooms in the Old Stock Exchange at the corner of Swithins Alley, close to the north-east corner of the Royal Exchange, London. He was declared bankrupt in 1813 and the building burned down in 1816.
Catalogues: Withers No: 845a, Davis Middlesex No: 65(var)
Riferimento : Withers# 845a
Fonte : https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1...
Collezione : English, Scottish & Irish, Conder Tokens, Commonwealth & Colonial Tokens