Owner Comments:
Scotland, LANARKSHIRE, FARTHING, GLASGOW, Randolph, G.
No. 4 D&H 39
Obverse: ---- A roll of tabacco surmounted by a jar labelled SCOTS; between two other jars, the one to the left marked BLACK RAP and the other BROWN RAP. Legend: --- FARTHING PAYABLE AT GEORGE RANDPLPH & CO.
Reverse: --- A negro wearing shorts standing on the sea-shore eith a tobacco leaf in his left hand. A ship is shown in the distance. Legend: --- TOBACCONISTS KING STREET GLASGOW with 1799 in the exergue.
Edge: --- Diagonally ribbed
Diesinker, Willetts; manufacturer, Kempson
One cwt. struck.
Rarity: Scarce
Reference #2
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Scotland, LANARKSHIRE, GLASGOW, RANDOLPH'S
Farthing
D&H 39
O: Three canisters, &c. FARTHING PAYABLE AT GEORGE RANDOLPH & CO.
R: A negro. TOBACCONISTS KING STREET GLASGOW. Ex: 1799
E: Milled
Rarity: Common
Reference #3
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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