1 Farthing Robert Orchard
Features
| Issuer |
United Kingdom
 |
|---|---|
| Type | Emergency coinage › Merchant tokens |
| Year | 1803 |
| Value | 1 Farthing (1⁄960) |
| Currency | Pound sterling (1158-1971) |
| Composition | Copper |
| Diameter | 21 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Demonetized | 15 October 1831 |
| Number | N# 108797 |
| References | DH# 1062 Richard Dalton, Samuel H. Hamer; 1918. The Provincial Token-Coinage of the 18th Century. Davisson's Ltd., London, United Kingdom. David Thornbory Batty. Batty's Catalogue of the Copper Coinage of Great Britain, Ireland, British Isles and Colonies. Manchester, United Kingdom (4 volumes). |
Obverse
Legend on eight lines, two upper and lower curved. Beaded border
Script: Latin
Lettering:
ROBERT ORCHARD GROCER & TEA DEALER
No 34 GREEK · St SOHO LONDON
WHOLESALE & RETAIL 1803
Reverse
Angled view of a four-storeyed building with shop on ground floor. Lettering around, toothed border
Script: Latin
Lettering:
ROBERT · ORCHARD · TEA · WAREHOUSE ·
CORNER OF CHURCH ST · AND ·
AT SAW BRIDGEWORTH HARTS
Edge
Plain
Comments
Robert Orchard was a grocer and tea-dealer with a business at 34 Soho Street, London. He also manufactured chocolate and cocoa at Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire. So the HARTS lettering is mis-spelled.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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