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1 Farthing - Edinburgh - Grocer & Wine Merchant

1 Farthing - (Edinburgh - Grocer & Wine Merchant) - obverse1 Farthing - (Edinburgh - Grocer & Wine Merchant) - reverse

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Features

Issuer United Kingdom
Type Emergency coinage › Merchant tokens
Value 1 Farthing (1⁄960)
Currency Pound sterling (1158-1971)
Composition Copper
Weight 2.5 g
Diameter 22 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized 15 October 1831
Number
N#
578387
References Batty# 1269-1275
David Thornbory Batty. Batty's Catalogue of the Copper Coinage of Great Britain, Ireland, British Isles and Colonies. Manchester, United Kingdom (4 volumes).

Obverse

Text around and surrounded by beaded border.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
GROCER
& WINE
MERCHANT

Reverse

Tea chest between two sugar loaves text around surrounded by beaded border.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
TEAS GROCERIES
& SPICERIES

Edge

Reeded

1 Farthing - (Edinburgh - Grocer & Wine Merchant) -  obverse

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Comments

At least six variations known according to the Batty's catalogue of the copper coinage of Great Britain, Ireland, British isles, and colonies, local &; private tokens, jettons

 

Date unknown but these may be from anywhere in the 1790s-1830s period.

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