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Description: | Copper halfpenny token issued by the Hibernian Mining Company from 1792 to 1797, dated to 1797 on the reverse. The token bears the company's cypher on the obverse, HMCo, and the names of the company's chairman, Turner Camac, his brother, James Camac, and the company's founder, John Howard-Kyan who founded HMC in 1766 in County Wicklow, Ireland and moved the centre of their operations to Ballymurtagh on the western bank of the Avoca River in 1786.The obverse legend reads: CAMAC KYAN AND CAMAC with HALFPENNY under cypher HMCo in centre.The reverse legend reads: INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT with 1797 under figure of Hibernia resting left arm on harp.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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