Owner Comments:
ANGUSSHIRE, FORFAR, Steele, J.
No. 12 D&H-23-6
Obverse: --- A panorama view of a town with hills behind and water and boats in the foreground. Legend: --- HALFPENNY In the exergue, FORFAR 1797.
Reverse: --- Armorial device of the Burgh of Forfar. (A square castle embattled above the gate, and at the top triple towered: the center tower larger than the others. On each side of the castle is a sentinel house, which like the three towers, have conical roofs --- all argent, mason sable, the portcullis and windows gules, the middle tower ensigned with a staff and banner charged with Royal Arms of Scotland.) On the token the banner is charged with the cross of St. Andrew. Legend: --- PAYABLE ON DE= MAND BY JOHN STEELE. In the exergue, WRIGHT DES.
Edge: --- Alternate dot and cross
Diesinker, Willetts; manufacturer, Kempson.
Five cwts. struck.
Rarity: common. There are three variants, D&H 26 is rare, D&H 23 scarce.
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