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Description: | CopperToken. Privately milled. The token now has a battered upstanding rim.Obverse description: Bust left; possibly bewigged and possibly with an aiguillette or crescentic shoulder pad, if not a cuirassed bust.Reverse description: Figure seated left, probably at an automated loom; a large object resembling a gear cog appears bottom right.Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1790-1792Paul Cannon kindly elaborates and corrects the original description by MF as follows, identifying the object as 'a Macclesfield halfpenny token. The reverse has a seated female figure holding the shaft of a windlass in her right hand and a cogwheel in her left. Most of the detail can be made out. The obverse has a bewigged bust of Charles Roe. Examples are dated between 1790 and 1792. There are many varieties and contemporary counterfeits. As you say it is very battered and none of the inscription is visible. The reference is D & H (Cheshire) 16-59; 61; 63-71 & 74'Diameter: 26.5mm, Weight: 6.60gms, die axis: 6.
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