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England - 1795

Bath halfpenny

Obverse:

BATH

Legend:

GLOVERS LONDON SHEFFIELD & BlRMINGM WAREROOMS

Size:

26.8 mm.

Edge:

PAYABLE AT N.^o 39 MILSOM STREET • + • + •

Reverse:

N.^o 39 MILSOM STREET in two lines in centre.

Legend:

LATE BATH & SOMERSETSHIRE BANK

Vern's Comments:

BELL N^o 1 D&H 28

BATH Glover.
   Obverse :- BATH. Legend :- LONDON SHEFFIELD & BIRMINGM. WAREROOMS.
   Reverse :- LATE BATH & SOMERSETSHIRE BANK
   Edge :- PAYABLE AT NO. 39 MILSOM STREET ·X·X·
Diesinker, Arnold; manufacturer, Lutwyche. Common.

Comments. Glover was a hardware and fancy warehouseman with a business at No. 39 Milsom Street, Bath. The token is purely utilitarian, and was probably a cheap order, with a minimum of time and trouble taken upon it. The lettering is crowded, the legends are too near the edge of the coin, and it is a thoroughly mean little piece.

Commercial Coins 1787-1804., pp. 148-149

England — Somersetshire

D & H 28 — Bath

Bell Pg: 148-149

O: GLOVERS LONDON SHEFFIELD & BlRMINGM WAREROOMS BATH.

A. 24

R: N.^o 39 MILSOM STREET in two lines in centre. LATE BATH & SOMERSETSHIRE BANK.

E: PAYABLE AT N.^o 39 MILSOM STREET • + • + •

Bath halfpenny