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Description: | Copper alloy Coin. Milled privately minted penny dated 1815.Obverse description: View of factory elevation with chimney, legend in field (below); circumferential legend present but worn.Obverse inscription: [LINCOLN] WORKS Reverse description: Draped figure standing right holding scales aloft, a bale left and a barrel right.Reverse inscription (field): PENNY TOKEN 1815Paul Cannon kindly adds the following notes on a closely related token:Obv: PH / OENIX [either side of chimney] and IRO / NWORKS [also either side of chimney]. Building with tall chimney depicts the ironworks. In exergue pile of six cannon balls with small cannon either side above SHEFFIELD.Rev: Figure of justice holding scales with ONE PENNY TOKEN around. To her right is a cask. In exergue 1813.This token is either Davis (Yorkshire 139 or 140). See http://archive.org/stream/nineteenthcentur00davi#page/183/mode/1up/search/ironworks [pp 183-4] and for an illustration see http://archive.org/stream/nineteenthcentur00davi#page/n378/mode/1up [Plate F no. 3] "The Nineteenth Century Token Coinage of Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man" by WJ Davis (1904).Diameter: 33.4mm, Weight: 17.30gms, die axis: 6.
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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