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P. Decks Post Office 2nd example

Obverse
Obverse:
Arms of the town of Bury St. Edmunds. (Azure, three pairs of arrows in saltire or, each pair enfiled with a ducal coronet of the last), and
Crest: (On a wreath above a helmet, a wolf sejant proper, holding between his fore paws the head of a man, couped at the shoulders of the last, ducally crowned or).
Legend:
SUCCESS TO THE PLOUGH AND FLEECE and a small ornamental stop.
Edge:
PAYABLE AT P. DECKS POST OFFICE BURY .XX.
Reverse
Reverse:
An imperial Crown within crossed laurel and palm branches, surmounted by the cypher P D in ornamental script capitals.
Legend:
THE COMMERCE OF BRITAIN

Vern's Comments:

Diesinker, Wyon; manufacturer, Kempson. Five cwts. struck. Common.

 
Comments. This halfpenny was also issued by Philip Deck. The obverse displays the Arms of Bury St. Edmunds. Edmund, the young King of East Anglia, was killed by the Danes at Hoxne, in A.D. 870, by being made a target for the arrows of his enemies to whom he had surrendered. His head was cut off and could not be found until some forty days afterwards when it was discovered in a thicket of thorns guarded by a wolf. The crest and the crown and arrows in the armorial bearings of the town are in honour of the royal martyr.
Commercial Coins 1787-1804., pp. 170-171


England — Suffolk

D & H 26 — Bury

Bell Pg: 170-171
O:    A very close copy of the preceding, but the wolf's head is about equidistant.
A. 24
R:    As last.
E:    PAYABLE AT P. DECKS POST OFFICE BURY .XX.