Token - Winchelsea Half Penny Bee Hive
Features
| Issuer |
United Kingdom
 |
|---|---|
| King |
George III (1760-1820)
|
| Type | Emergency coinage › Merchant tokens |
| Year | 1794 |
| Value | ½ Penny (1⁄480) |
| Currency | Pound sterling (1158-1971) |
| Composition | Copper |
| Weight | 9.6 g |
| Diameter | 29 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Issued | 1794 |
| Demonetized | 15 October 1831 |
| Number | N# 555428 |
Obverse
A beehive and bees between a shrub and a rose bush
Script: Latin
Lettering: INDUSTRY, THE SOURCE OF CONTENT
Reverse
The Arms of the port of Sandwich (three demi-lions impaling three ships' hulls);
Script: Latin
Lettering: WINCHELSEA HALFPENNY 1794
Comments
Richard Maplesden, a grocer and draper in Winchelsea, Sussex
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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