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Description: | Token, copper, 28mm diameter. Gatehouse halfpenny, 1793. (DH Kirkcud 1). Reverse, large factory, 26 windows and two smoking chimneys. Issuer Thos. Scott & Co., 1793, �d. Obverse Griffin crest: �Impero�, Gatehouse Halfpenny�. Reverse Large building (presumably the cotton mill). �Payable at the house of Thos. Scott & Co.� Notes Thos. Scott & Co. were cotton manufacturers in Gatehouse, a village five miles from Kirkcudbright. The rate of growth of the village was such that only two years after the issue of the token, it was made a burgh. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | tokens | Temporal: | 1793 | Source: | Science Museum | Identifier: | 1977-381/112 | Go to resource |
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