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] three escallops 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 members gules. 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