Watch List notes:

BRITISH 18TH CENTURY TOKENS, WALES, Parys Mine Company,Thomas Williams, (1737-1802), attorney and businessman, part owner and managing partner of the Parys and Mona Mine Companies of Anglesey, Copper Halfpenny, 1788, obv Druid's head left within thick oak wreath, rev P M Co cypher, 1788, THE ANGLESEY MINES HALFPENNY around, edge PAYABLE IN ANGLESEY LONDON AND LIVERPOOL . X . (Pye p.3, 4; Atkins p.275, 133; D&H Anglesey 271). Good extremely fine and very rare.

Williams effectively gained control of the entire operations of the Parys Mountain and, later, the Cornish Metal Company, giving him a near monopoly over the development and production of copper and the copper trade in Great Britain.

Estimate: £400-600