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Auction 102  4 October 2016
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Lot 2467

Estimate: 500 GBP
Price realized: 1050 GBP
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BRITISH 18TH CENTURY TOKENS, SCOTLAND, Invernessshire, Mackintosh, Inglis & Wilsonmerchants, grocers, and retailers of a variety of items including paint, linens, medicinal pills and concoctions,, Silver Halfpenny, 1795, obv rose and thistle united, INVERNESS HALFPENNY 1795 around, rev cornucopia of flowers, stone below inscribed CLACH NA CUDDEN, CONCORDIA ET FIDELITAS around, no vine projecting from the right side of the flowers, edge PAYABLE . AT . MACKINTOSH INGLIS & WILSON'S (Conder p.47, 3; Atkins p.302, 3; D&H Invernesshire 3). From an early state of the reverse die, extremely fine and toned, extremely rare in silver.

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: £500-700
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