Description
Great Britain, Somersetshire, Bath, William Glover, Copper Halfpenny Trade Token, undated (c.1795), obverse: BATH at centre, GLOVERS LONDON SHEFFIELD & BIRMINGM. WAREROOMS . around, the top of the B of BATH aligns with the second limb of the first N of LONDON, reverse: No. 39 MILSOM STREET, with LATE BATH & SOMERSETSHIRE BANK + around, edge PAYABLE IN LANCASTER LONDON OR LIVERPOOL, diam. 27mm (Dalton & Hamer “The Provincial Token Coinage of the 18th Century” 28a).
Very fine, struck a little off-centre, very rare.
Ex Richardson Collection; Ex F S Cokayne Collection.
