BRITISH 18TH CENTURY TOKENS, SCOTLAND, Invernessshire, Mackintosh, Inglis & Wilsonmerchants, grocers, and retailers of a variety of items including paint, linens, medicinal pills and concoctions,, merchants, grocers, and retailers of a variety of items including paint, linens, medicinal pills and concoctions, Copper Halfpenny (2), 1793, obv rose and thistle united, INVERNESS HALFPENNY, rev cornucopia of flowers, stone below inscribed 1793, CONCORDIA ET FIDELITAS, edge PAYABLE . AT . MACKINTOSH INGLIS & WILSON'S (Atkins p.302, 1a; D&H Invernesshire 1a); edge PAYABLE AT . MACKINTOSH INGLIS & I WILSON'S (Atkins p.302, 1b; D&H Invernesshire 1b). First good extremely fine, second with light marks, otherwise good extremely fine, both with some colour remaining. (2)
D&H 1a ex Lincoln Collection
Phineas Mackintosh (d. 1812), four-time Provost of Inverness; Alexander Mackintosh (d. 1815), a Baillie of Inverness, later elected Provost; George Inglis (1764-1846), a colonial planter; William Wilson (1764-1811), grocer.
Estimate: £100-150