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, 1796, obv rose and thistle united, INVERNESS HALFPENNY 1796 around, rev cornucopia of flowers, stone below inscribed CLACH NA CUDDEN, CONCORDIA ET FIDELITAS around, vine projecting from right side of flowers, edge PAYABLE . AT . MACKINTOSH INGLIS & WILSON'S (D&H Invernesshire 5). Nearly very fine and very rare.
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: £80-100