BRITISH 18TH CENTURY TOKENS, SCOTLAND, Invernessshire, Mackintosh, Inglis & Wilsonmerchants, grocers, and retailers of a variety of items including paint, linens, medicinal pills and concoctions,, Gilt-copper 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, edge PAYABLE . AT . MACKINTOSH INGLIS & WILSON'S (Conder p.47, 3; Atkins p.302, 3; D&H Invernesshire 3). From a late state of the reverse die, good extremely fine and retaining much brilliance, extremely rare in gilt-copper.
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: £300-500