Owner Comments:
FIFESHIRE, BURNTISLAND, Burntisland Vitriol Co.
No. 1 D&H-2
Obverse: --- A carboy between crossed sprigs of rose and thistle, surmounted by a monogram cypher BVCo in script capitols.
Reverse: --- An inscription BURNT-ISLAND VITRIOL. COMP.Y 1797 in five lines, enclosed within an irradiated buckler garter bearing the motto NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT. Order of the Thistle.
Edge: --- Diagonally milled.
Diesinker, Dixon; manufacturer, Lutwyche.
Three cwts. struck
(Rarity): Scarce
Reference #2
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Scotland, Fifeshire, Burntisland
2. O: A cypher B V Co, under it a carboy between a rose and a thistle.
R: BURNT / ISLAND / VITRIOL / COMP.Y / 1797. In five lines within a garter radiated, on which is inscribed NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT.
E: Milled
2a. E: Milled over PAYABLE AT MACCLESFIELD LIVERPOOL OR CONGLETON
2b. E: Plain
3. O: as last
R: Vitriol spelt VITRIAL.
2. Common
2a. and 2b. RR
3. RRR
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