6 Pence Not Local - Britannia on cannon

6 Pence (Not Local - Britannia on cannon) - obverse6 Pence (Not Local - Britannia on cannon) - reverse

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Features

Issuer United Kingdom (United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies)
Type Token
Years 1811-1812
Value 6 Pence (1⁄40)
Currency Currency tokens (1798-1816)
Composition Silver
Diameter 21 mm
Thickness 0.5 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized 1817
Number
N#
109015
References Dalton# 18,
Richard Dalton; 1968. The Silver Token Coinage Mainly Issued Between 1811-12. Seaby, London, United Kingdom.
Davis# 13
William John Davis; 1904. The Nineteenth Century Token Coinage of of Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, to which are added tokens of over one penny value of any period. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

A figure “6” with lettering incuse thereon, oak branches surrounding

Script: Latin

Lettering:
6
SIX PENCE TOKEN

Reverse

Britannia seated left on a cannon, extending in her right hand an olive branch. Lettering above

Script: Latin

Lettering: BRITANNIA

Edge

Milled

6 Pence (Not Local - Britannia on cannon) -  obverse

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Comments

Catalogue: (D 18, 19)
Non-local undated Sixpence token, rare.
Mentioned in "The silver token-coinage mainly issued between 1811 and 1812" described and illustrated by R. Dalton. In there number 237 is a sixpence, and number 236 is a shilling of same design ...
 Within an oak wreath, 1811. ONE; on the thick strokes of the letters, SHILLING SILVER TOKEN, in indented letters.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1811-1812) 

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