Provincial Tokens
Middlesex Skidmore's DH 522a
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Coin Details
| Origin/Country: |
G.BRIT - MIDDLESEX |
| Item Description: |
1/2P 1795 G.BRIT D&h-522a MIDDLESEX - SKIDMORE'S E: MILLED \\\ Middlesex DH 522a |
| Full Grade: |
NGC MS 65 RB |
| Owner: |
farthing |
Set Details
| Custom Sets: |
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| Competitive Sets: |
This coin is not competing in any sets.
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Owner Comments:
Middlesex Skidmore's DH #522a
Obverse: A south west view of a church with JAMES below in small letters ST. PAULS COVENT GARDEN LONDON
Reverse: A view of the same church in ruins DESTROY'D, BY, FIRE, SEPR. 17TH. 1795
Edge: Milled \\\\\
Diesinker: Charles James
Manufacturer: Paul Skidmore
Weight: 8.67g
Rarity: Common
The parish church was built in 1633 by Inigo Jones, repaired in 1727 and destroyed by fire in 1795. It was rebuilt on the same site by John Hardwick.
The family business of the token manufacturer Peter Skidmore was an iron foundry at 15 Coppice Row in Clerkenwell with a shop at No. 123, High Holborn. Skidmore realized that there was a market for tokens as the genuine tradesmen's pieces of the time were very keenly collected as they were issued. As well as making genuine tradesmens' tokens to order, he also made pennies and halfpennies for sale to collectors of the time - especially series of Buildings Tokens for London.
Atkins: Middlesex 399a
Bt. Jerry Bobbe