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Country: Cambridgeshire, Cambridge, England
King George III (1760-1820)
Type: Tokens - Druid Series
Year: 1795
Value: 1/2 Penny = 1/24 Shilling (1/480 LSD)
Currency: Conder tokens (1787-1797)
Grade: VF/F (Stripes)
Composition: Copper
Weight: 9 g.
Diameter: 25 mm
Thickness: 1.5 mm
Shape: Round
Orientation: Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized: 1797
References: DH# 12, Atkins# 10
Obverse:
Cloaked druid bust in profile looking right, legend around, date below, beaded border.
Lettering:
CURRENT IN THE COUNTIES OF
1795
Engraver: William Wyon.
Reverse:
A beehive of straw set on a wooden tray and standing on plain ground with 34 bees swarming around, legend around, a small star as a stop below, beaded border.
Lettering: INDUSTRY HAS ITS SURE REWARD.
Engraver: William Wyon.
Edge:
Plain with incuse legend.
Lettering: CAMBRIDGE BEDFORD · AND HUNTINGDON · X · X
Comments:
Engraver - William Wyon.
Manufacturer - Peter Kempson.
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.
Riferimento : DH# 12, Atkins# 10
Fonte : https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces7...
Collezione : English, Scottish & Irish, Conder Tokens, Commonwealth & Colonial Tokens