BRITISH 18TH CENTURY TOKENS, SCOTLAND, Invernessshire, Mackintosh, Inglis & Wilsonmerchants, grocers, and retailers of a variety of items including paint, linens, medicinal pills and concoctions,, Copper Halfpenny, 1795, obv rose and thistle united, INVERNESS HALFPENNY 1795, rev cornucopia of flowers, stone below inscribed CLACH NA CUDDEN, CONCORDIA ET FIDELITAS around, edge PAYABLE . AT . MACKINTOSH INGLIS & WILSON'S (Conder p.47, 3; Atkins p.302, 3; D&H Invernesshire 3); edge PAYABLE . AT . MACKINTOSH INGLIS & WILSON (D&H Invernesshire 3a). D&H 3a from an early state of the reverse die, D&H 3a from a later state, both good extremely fine, D&H 3a with a bit of colour remaining. (2)
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