Scotland "Conder" Tokens

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Coin Details

Origin/Country: SCOTLAND - ANGUSSHIRE
Item Description: 1/2P 1799 SCOT D&h-31 ANGUSSHIRE - MONTROSE E:PAYABLE BY ANDREW NICOL
Full Grade: NGC AU Details
Owner: 3mctoledo

Set Details

Custom Sets: Scotland "Conder" Tokens
Scottish Genuine Commercial Coins 1787-1804 R.C.Bell Type set
Competitive Sets: This coin is not competing in any sets.
Research: NGC Coin Price Guide
NGC World Coin Census

Owner Comments:

ANGUSSHIRE, MONTROSE, Nicol, A.

No. 14 D&H-30-6

Obverse: --- Arms of the Duke of Montrose. (Quarterly; First and Fourth: or, on a chief sable [shown as argent on the token] threeescallops of the first, for GRAHAM. Second and Third: argent, three roses gules, barbed vert [this tincture could not be shown on so small a scale on the token] as a coat of augmentation for the title of MONTROSE; surmounted by a ducal coronet. Crest: a falcon proper, armed and bellied or, preying on a heron lying on its back proper, beaked and members gules. Supporters: Two storks proper, beaked and membersgules. Motto: Ona riband beneath the arms, "Ne Oublie."). Legend: --- MONTROSE HALFPENNY 1799.

Reverse: --- .The front view of a large plain building with wings and railings in front. Legend: --- MONTROSE LUNATIC HOSPITAL ERECTED BY SUBSCRIPTION 1781

Edge: --- PAYABLE BY ANDREW NICOL. TOBACONIST X Struck in a collar

Diesinker, Willetts; manufacturer, Kempson. This is a fine coin apart from the heraldic error, and the one "C" in tobacconist; fortunately neither mistake detracts from the appearance of the piece.

Ten cwts. struck.

Rarity: Common. There are six trifling varieties of the token. D&H 31-36

Reference #2

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References
#1 Notes on Eighteenth Century Tokens by Arthur W Waters, Seaby's numismatic Publications 1954
#2 Commercial Coins 1787 -1804 by R. C. Bell, Corbitt & Hunter LTD 1963
#3 The Provincial Token - Coinage of the 18th Century Illustrated, By R, Dalton & S.H. Hamer 1910 - 1918, Reprint 2015, The Copper Corner

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